Allen Weinstein Quotes
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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What I would ask the Democrat Party is to put your plan on the table, because most people agree with the facts, and the facts are that Social Security is running out of money.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.
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I want to know who my client is. I see her on Instagram, but it's another thing to get to chat with her.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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Don't forget to eat a lot of greens and fish oil pills. Those are two of the best things to keep your skin glowing.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office.
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Most of the time, economic data is fairly benign. I don't wish to imply it is meaningless, but it is not a driver of stock markets. Indeed, the correlation between economic noise and how equity markets perform has been wildly overemphasized.
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I haven't done as many films as I would have liked. A lot of my contemporaries have done more. I don't have 'I will be a movie star' emblazoned on anything, but I'd like do a bit more screen stuff and then when the time is right come back to theatre. When it is good, theatre takes a lot of beating both to watch and perform.
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I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn't, I feel awkward with.
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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.
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Bad guys don't think they're bad guys. Hitler probably thought he was a wonderful guy doing some wonderful and righteous work for Germany.
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The difference between Superman and Wonder Woman is not strength or power level or origin but the fact that she is a woman.
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Comedy writing is the hardest, and yet there's so much that's relatable in it.
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We must not look for some kind of Messiah.
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