Calvin Coolidge Quotes
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I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
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But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
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If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.
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I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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I am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might happen in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, but what actually happened was capitalist restoration.
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My comments are reserved for reputable journalists.
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I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry.
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If you're doing a family movie, you don't want it to be stupid. Farting chihuahuas is not my idea of entertainment for kids or adults. So you try to make a movie that adults can see on one level, and kids can see on another.
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I was not a very good mother. I was always running out to do a movie or something. If I had to do it over, I would either have a career or children. I wouldn't do both unless I could work in my home. I spent 20 years feeling guilty, which is not a very nice emotion.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
