Walter Cronkite Quotes
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.
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Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.
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Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.
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There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When you're looking at the story from the outside, you can create whatever twists and turns you want. But when you're writing, you're inside the characters' heads, and you see that they may be motivated to do something different.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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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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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.
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I have a feeling there were many, many successful rock duos that just didn't get attention. That's the fault of the rock press. They are always playing up controversy, scandal, aggravation, and irritation.
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A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.
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I certainly didn't want to make another movie that's 'just another Dracula film.'
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I watched a lot of Jerry Rice's film just to learn how to run routes, but it was so difficult to imitate him, and he didn't play with the same body language that I wanted to play with.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
