Walter Cronkite Quotes
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I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.
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I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave all of us foreign, and particularly Latino, directors a big break.
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If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'
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Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don't think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn't struck by that.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.
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I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.
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Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.
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I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
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I am certainly an ought and not a must.
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When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.
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I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.
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What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I think of that. No big deal. I've reached a stage in my life where I am content.
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The thing is that quite a few of my books have ended up as they are because of conversations I've had over the years with forensic scientists.
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I certainly think cameras ought to be in courtrooms.
