Walter Cronkite Quotes
The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.
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I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.
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If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script... The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'
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Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.
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The Spy Act prohibits keystroke logging, hijacking, and phishing.
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
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Girls are going to school again in Swat Valley. And that is great.
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If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.
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I want people to understand balance. I might make a banger, and that's the way that I feel, and then I may want to make a song that's really deep.
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The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
