Linda Chavez Quotes
Many journalists seem to believe that we have become little different from our enemies.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.
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I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.
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My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
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I'm a big fan of Elvis, man. I got 'Heartbreak Hotel' tattooed on my chest.
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I love girl power.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
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Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.
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Not every child is cut out for an individual sport.
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Whats nice about my dating life is that I dont have to leave my house. All I have to do is read the paper: Im marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day.
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As I've said before, and I still hold to, I truly am the most boring person alive. And if there was a great investigation to be found at the end of the resume, it would be, the most boring person alive.
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Many journalists seem to believe that we have become little different from our enemies.
