Patrick Leahy Quotes
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The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.
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I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
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Television can be a little tricky in terms of finding roles that feel fully flushed out, which is why I love being in the theater so much, because the roles tend to be really on the page.
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Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level.
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I grew up in suburban New York City and London, England, where my dad was working.
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I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.
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Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
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Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
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It was hard for me to hear anyone saying they didn't like 'Billy Madison.'
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In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.
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It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
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The new Disney cartoon 'Bambi' is interesting because it's the first one that's been entirely unpleasant.
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If you look at weak democracies, the oligarchies that have taken undue control of them always seek to tamper with the vote. It is important for oligarchs to have elections to give their guy a veneer of legitimacy - and important for the vote always to turn out 'their way.'
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
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An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.
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I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
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I love to go out. I love the outdoors. I love outdoor sports. I'm a big traveler.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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I'm an old trial lawyer.
