Archilochus Quotes
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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Just let the wardrobe do the acting.
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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
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Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
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The United States being a limited form of government, one of the restrictions to which it is subject is in regard to its power to levy taxes. The States may levy them for a great many purposes for which Congress cannot, because to the States belong all of the powers not delegated to Congress.
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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I sent 'Hell or High Water' to Peter Berg, asking if he'd like to be involved.
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In the acting community in New York we call 'Law & Order' 'grad school,' because everyone eventually does a 'Law & Order.' My first one was in 1995, which was a year after I got out of school. Matthew Blanchard was the character's name.
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As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.
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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
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An ice-fishing shanty is basically a tin outhouse on a frozen lake, except that in an outhouse, the hole has a purpose. In ice fishing, the hole is what you stare at for hours, hoping that at some point you'll break the monotony by falling in.
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'The Daily Show,' at its core, is the answer to the nightly news.
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'Taxicab Confessions' always cracks me up. And if you are in the mood for a good game show, I like 'Survivor' because it's well made.
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I'm always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab.
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I basically live out of my truck - I mean from place to place. I feel more at home in my truck than just about anywhere, which is a sad thing to say, but it's true.
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As for their healers and their worship of gold books of old lore, there had been tribal stories of this, too, all nonsense, as anything chattered by the ill-informed must be.
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Devious, underachieving, school-hating, irreverent, and clever.
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Once desire was turned on, combustion gave it a life of its own. Once it was turned on it became a raging wildfire, uncontrollable and uncontainable, the type of conflagration that had to be allowed to burn itself out.
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As an actor, I don't want an image. I want people to see the character, not me.
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There's Madeleine, and then there's 'Madeleine Albright'. And I sometimes kind of think, who is this person? Once you become 'Madeleine Albright' it doesn't go away.
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My phone rings, they call me up and say, 'Chael, your testosterone level is too high.' I say, 'Well, how high was it?' They say, '0.7.' I said, 'What's normal?' They say, '0.6.'; I said, 'One-tenth? You're telling me I'm one-tenth higher than the average man? Re-test that - you must have caught me on a low day.'
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I may not be Meryl Streep, but I am not untalented.
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πόλλ' οἶδ' ἀλώπηξ, ἐχῖνος δ'ἓν μέγα
