Harold Evans Quotes
The purpose of the book is to see what happened to America; both to the people in it, and to its relationships with the rest of the world.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
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As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe.
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I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
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If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.
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From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.
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What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a comeback, and normally that begins with somebody saying, 'I want to do something to help people. I want to do something to help the lepers in the Third World. I want to do something to help abandoned wives in India.'
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I have crushes on women all the time. I don't have intimate relationships with them, but I find women beautiful.
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Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.
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I don't think that I would always be asked about my feelings about liberal bias in the media if there wasn't any liberal bias in the media. If it was a moot question, then we wouldn't always have the discussion.
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You can't have cinema by committee if you're trying to do it well.
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Refurbishing I've done in the first three years and I'm still giving housing money, of course, to the north.
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For 'A Little Night Music,' I did try to get little bit more beefed up for that because I thought that would help me carry myself around the stage in that character.
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In the past week it has become clear that the vote on the final healthcare bill will be very close. I take this vote with the utmost seriousness. I am quite aware of the historic fight that has lasted the better part of the last century to bring America in line with other modern democracies in providing single payer health care.
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The purpose of the book is to see what happened to America; both to the people in it, and to its relationships with the rest of the world.
