Ted Olson Quotes
The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it took off. I had been in my office at the Department of Justice. Someone told me that there had been the two strikes that occurred at the World Trade Center.
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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I'm very wary of news on television.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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I don't want to fight anybody that just wants to hold you and try and eat the time.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
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I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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A lot of people say writers start losing their powers after 60 or 65. But I look at the best-seller list and see a book by that 14-year-old gymnast, Dominique Moceanu, and I think, 'Now, what's she going to tell the world? And these 25-year-old rock stars, what are they going to tell the world?'
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I started playing with a group of young people when I was 13. I turned professional when I was 15 and I played dance halls, this on bass guitar.
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[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.
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You become visibly stressed because you are working hard to pay for a standard of living so robust that it overwhelms your capacity to consume it.
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The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it took off. I had been in my office at the Department of Justice. Someone told me that there had been the two strikes that occurred at the World Trade Center.
