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'm a character actor so I've jumped around to all kinds of things.
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If I could tell every Trump supporter two things, it would be to travel and read a history book. Look beyond yourselves; look at how petty the morals you uphold seem when you realize we are not the only ones.
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Everyone knows that the Arab peoples want prosperity, freedom and democracy every bit as much as anyone in Europe or America.
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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.
