Walter Winchell Quotes
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.
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I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
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All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools.
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Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
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There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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The word class has been excised from the acceptable political vocabulary, except in the limited usage of right-wingers when they accuse liberals of inciting 'class warfare' - a charge that means it's okay for rich people to vote their economic interests but it's not all right to encourage poor people to do so.
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I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble.
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The great forces of history were real, after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those great forces always came down to the dreams and hungers and judgments of individuals. The choices they made were real. They mattered.
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The baby boom is about to become a patient boom.
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It's not about choosing a specific genre; that's not how I go about deciding what movies to make.
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A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
