Leon Spinks Quotes
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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When I played Robert Howard in 'The Whole Wide World', I was struggling with it. There's this dual thing where you feel real good about being able to play this juicy part, and then there's constant shame: 'Who am I to pretend to know who this guy was? Who am I to represent this guy for people who never knew him?'
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.
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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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At the end of the day, I am not my dad and have my own journey to make.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.
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When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds and our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, we will know that we are living in the creative turmoil of a genuine civilization struggling to be born.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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My songs are like my kids.
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I love helping the kids.
