Walter Cronkite Quotes
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.
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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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What you need is one black dress I call Plan B. It doesn't have to be fabulous, it just looks good, covers up the problems and is neutral enough for dinner, business, a date, a funeral. You don't overwear it, you don't overwash it, because the Plan B is - gold.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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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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For it stirs the blood in an old man’s heart, And makes his pulses fly,To catch the thrill of a happy voice And the light of a pleasant eye.
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In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story.
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In 2008, I was one of millions united for hope and change. As 2010 dawns, change looks to me like more of the same. Instead of peace, we got more war. Instead of health care reform, we have an industry win that requires Americans to buy health insurance without any real cost controls.
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Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel; I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family.
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The civil rights fight was a very important fight.
