Alan Colmes Quotes
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.
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Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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Sometimes words are harder than blows.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world.
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I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.
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A big reason I'd spent my career as a writer and not a public speaker is that I am a person who refines my worldview in a silent room, waiting for my thoughts to arrange themselves on the screen before me.
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I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
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The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
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The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.
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But, standing in the fading golden sunlight now, I can feel some of the scars of the summer stabbing over. I can feel the promise of a new beginning.
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There's only a certain number of movies I'm going to get made, and it's important to me that they each be original somehow.
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I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ. Therefore I shy away from church...
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There is no man ... however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory of which is so unpleasant to him that he would gladly expunge it. And yet he ought not entirely to regret it, because he cannot be certain that he has indeed become a wise man -- so far as it is possible for any of us to be wise -- unless he has passed through all the fatuous or unwholesome incarnations by which that ultimate stage must be preceded.
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Benghazi is not a scandal; Benghazi was a tragedy.
