Walt Dohrn Quotes
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That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.
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My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been.
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Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.
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Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
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To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.
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I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.
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I will not get very far with this attitude.
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Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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When I'm writing, I mean what I'm saying - there's a lot of me in each song.
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Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.
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Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
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I do a lot of working out, but I haven't been kicking for a while, so one time I was rehearsing a spinning roundhouse and darned near threw out my leg.
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That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
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The Left regards the Constitution as defective and outmoded - in part because it impedes the government's ability to control institutions, like churches and families, which stand between the state and individuals.
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I just want to prove that I am really good at something. And I haven't quite done that yet - at least not to myself. I know I could ride so much better, with more ease, with more finesse. I feel I'm nowhere near as good as I should be.
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The ribosome is a machine that gets instructions from the genetic code and operates chemically in order to produce the product.
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The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
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The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.
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When my coach gives me a program, I damage it.
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There are those moments when you shake someone's hand, have a conversation with someone, and suddenly your all bound together because you share your humanity in one simple moment.
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High stations tumult, but not bliss create; None think the Great unhappy, but the Great.
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When we get our sense of self from only one place, when something goes wrong and the inevitable happens, it can crush you emotionally, spiritually and physically. So it’s important not to believe you are defined by one place, one relationship or one thing, and to find ways to keep your sense of self strong.
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Sometimes actors come in, you record them, and they do their role.
