Alex Pareene Quotes
The State of the Union is less written than it is designed, structured and organized around applause prompts and camera cues.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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Examine the history of China for 2,000 years back, and then compare it with the Western history of fifty years! Does the government of these foreign countries present such a record of generosity, benevolence, loyalty, and honesty as ours?
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Personal life? I'd like to keep it private.
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We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
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You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.
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Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.
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Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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You have to try things you're really afraid of, even if you pee yourself a little bit.
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I work very hard at my game.
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The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.
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I don't want to be satisfied with where I'm at or happy about what I've done. I want to keep pushing it.
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It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens. There are other things I enjoy doing, and I involve myself in them.
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When I come home, I'm just Maisie, and everywhere I go, I'm just Maisie!
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The majority of actor kids are really competitive. But Gabby Sidibe on 'The Big C' has been a big help to me. Her career went from zero to a hundred in about one second, so she's warned me what to expect.
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Apple has made this commitment that it's a green company. So how do you fulfill your commitment if you don't consider you have responsibility in your suppliers' pollution?
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I have many friends and family members who have served (or are currently serving) in our nation's Armed Forces. I have such a profound respect for what they do day in and day out.
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When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
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Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.
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I used to get into the government car and switch on Chopin or someone I liked to hear at the end of a parliamentary day.
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People take sex far too seriously.
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Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.
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The State of the Union is less written than it is designed, structured and organized around applause prompts and camera cues.
