Lesli Linka Glatter Quotes
America had the message of freedom and democracy, but we haven't actually shown that to be what we do in the world. So I think that's a terrifying thing.
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CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
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I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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I only know what I read in the papers.
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Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.
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I'm a real optimist.
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I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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The mind is just another muscle.
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I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think there's anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit.
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So far as I'm concerned, Ronald Reagan was the best president. Nixon was the worst. Some of his policies were okay, but he disgraced the office.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In fact, we hold our highest rewards for those scientists who can prove others wrong. And by the way, they are famous in their own lifetimes. We don't wait until they're dead.
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Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.
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America had the message of freedom and democracy, but we haven't actually shown that to be what we do in the world. So I think that's a terrifying thing.
