Al Hirschfeld Quotes
You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done... I am only interested in the present.
Quotes to Explore
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
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I don't think Congress, in general, has done a good job articulating to the American public how inextricably linked our credit markets are to our entire economic system.
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People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
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In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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I don't mind a bikini bottom.
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'Dancing with the Stars' is awesome.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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The addict will screw you over and lie to you and do all kinds of things.
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Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
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I love researching, I love interviewing.
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If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before 'Sandy', that was kind of the low point in terms of Americans believing that climate change was real and that humans were causing it.
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I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.
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All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
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If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.
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Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.
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If you are too overwhelmed, then when you sit down and try to write something, it feels forced. There's nothing worse than forced music. I mean, this world has enough of that right now, where it's basically McDonald's making music. 'Everybody needs another hamburger and fries.' Here's a piece of crap that nobody's gonna care about it two years.
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A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things above and under the ground.
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Do people really believe there's something different about the eyes of murderers?
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You always feel the drawing you are working on is the best you've ever done... I am only interested in the present.
