Richard Marx Quotes
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If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.
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In my downtime, you'll mostly find me curled up with a book. I love reading biographies. My favourites are those of Dalai Lama, Osama Bin Laden, and Einstein.
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I don't know... part of, I suppose, my way out of everything, has been really taking care of myself. I think that comes from an awareness that my children really need me, and they need me to be the healthiest version of myself that I can possibly be.
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In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.
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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
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I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.
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It takes me so long to get tired of a man. It's women that are the problem. Don't get me wrong. I think men have their problems just as much as women.
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I don't want to do stories that don't have a heart. I'm just not going to be satisfied with stories where I can't be passionate about the subject, where I can't make a difference.
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If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is.
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My wife and I have spent most of our lives in France, and we are both pretty well bilingual, my wife more purely than I, since as a little girl she went to school in French Switzerland.
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I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.
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I don't give myself titles. I don't think of that.
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Maybe storytelling belongs in audio - a short story is the length of a commute. That can be a sacred spot where you have the ear of the reader without having to compete with other media like games or TV.
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What happens to each of my female heroes, certainly, is they find something bigger than themselves that they are honored to serve. It's not giving up your family.
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In 1999, NATO did impose a no-fly zone in Kosovo without seeking a U.N. resolution to carry out air strikes on Serbian forces.
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I don't like the term 'ensemble.' It's bland to me.
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To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.
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Magic has been around forever, and it's also been in trouble forever. I'm not suggesting that there was ever a time when the practice of magic was celebrated by those in power. Actually, such practices were routinely demonized by monarchs and organized religions precisely because magic is inherently democratic.
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He'd been so angry at her -always pushing his buttons, that girl. But then he'd taken her into his arms, and all that anger had blazed into a darker, hotly possessive need that had urged him to bend his head, bite down on the throbbing pulse in her neck, leave a mark.
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Obama is for the 300 million souls of the United States what Andreas Lubitz was for the 150 souls of the Germanwings flight.
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I would never turn down a movie, but at the same time, but my ideal job would be a half-hour sitcom.
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I'm an athlete, so I can dress down with the best of them. I can throw on t-shirts and sweats with the best of them.
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The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.
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I'm now so keenly aware that I have everything to prove and nothing to lose.
