T. S. Eliot Quotes
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.
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Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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There's a tradition in war writing that the veteran goes over and sees the truth of war and comes back. And I'm skeptical of that.
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Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
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Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now I realize I was writing for others, so that they'd applaud me, see my genius, tell me how wonderful I am, or be jealous of my success.
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Loss teaches you to figure things out as they come along.
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Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
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The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
