J. C. Watts Quotes
You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.
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It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.
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The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
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In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain strictly neutral.
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All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.
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When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.
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I'll get up at 5 or 6. I try to catch up on sleep on the weekends, so I'll try to get seven hours of sleep. During the week, my ideal is to go to bed at 9 and wake up six hours later.
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The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'
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You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters insteresting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects.
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Honest, simple work for young people is essential to their well-being.
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You have to remain positive and just try your best and part of that is doing things that continually surprise people, including yourself, so that you don't get pigeon-holed.
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Bing was always hesitant to accept appreciation in any form.
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You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.
