Chuck Todd Quotes
The big post-election story if Obama wins the presidency will be in the hands of the ethically embattled Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich. He's not very popular, and has a chance to use his power to appoint an Obama replacement as a step in the direction of political rehabilitation.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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The perfection of art is to conceal art.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.
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There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
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I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
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I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
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I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.
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I've shaken hands with every radio station, from Honduras to Ryan Seacrest's.
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The Internet opens up so many doors. It's a phenomenal tool for education but also a way for people to be scary and dangerous. We're living in a world where we can be hacked and exposed.
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Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
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Cable series have more time to focus on characters, and a structure that allows for a development in character as you go along. Network shows have a pressure of time and space that is completely different.
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The big post-election story if Obama wins the presidency will be in the hands of the ethically embattled Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich. He's not very popular, and has a chance to use his power to appoint an Obama replacement as a step in the direction of political rehabilitation.
