Addison Mizner Quotes
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What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.
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I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.
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When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
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It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don't really get that annoyed about it.
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Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant.
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I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.
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At the end of the day, there are people out there that want to see you fail.
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The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.
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I grew up thinking that renting is perfectly normal. And then, strangely enough, I never did buy a house. I live in New York City, and I'm still renting. My own personal narrative shows that it is possible to live a respectable life without ever having owned a home.
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An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.
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In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.
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The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
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I think 2020 can still be my time.
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My parents are very good parents and have already said that they will look after me until the end of my skating career.
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I used to run to school, 10k every day. And this at altitude, perfect preparation, really.
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New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.
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I'm not an environmentalist, or a doctor, or a nutritionist.
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If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.
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There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about the paratroopers I served with who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms.
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Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.
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Realists do not fear the results of their study.
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Being from New York, living in L.A., being in Chicago, you kind of get more of the big-city, melting-pot sort of thing. But when you drive through the country, there's so many small pockets of people that don't experience people of different backgrounds. So what they've seen on television is their baseline.
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The adjective is the enemy of the noun and the adverb the enemy of damn near everything else. Nouns and verbs are the guts of the language.
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...talking as though the Standard Oil Company was the smallest thing he owned.
