Lois Capps Quotes
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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After my hip operation, I had to cut out butter, which I loved, and salt. I no longer eat desserts with lots of cream, and I've cut right back on alcohol.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.
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I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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It's good - it's great when somebody who is 20 years younger than you comes up and says, 'Wow, we just got turned on to you guys, and you're really great,' or something like that. I like that.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.
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Grown-up clothes are more appealing because customers need to be able to project themselves into them.
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.
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A good autobiography is like a document: a mirror of the age on which people can 'depend.' In a novel, by contrast, it's not the facts that matter, but precisely what you add to the facts.
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It's hard to field the ball when you have both hands around your throat.
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We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.
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You write a hit the same way you write a flop.
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I get up early and open my emails, write cheques, and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done.
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Picking up and going on, I believe, is my way of dealing with that enormous shock.
