E. L. Doctorow Quotes
We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.
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I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov -
I don't want to be a bust.
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There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.
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Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.
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My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
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'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of tiny. But what sustains you are the characters.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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After the events of the 20th century, God, quite reasonably, left Europe. But He's still here in the United States.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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I still enjoy doing the things I've always done, like going to a monthly dance party at a club downtown.
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I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.
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Fifteen years ago, my wife and I purchased an authentic log cabin in Maryland. Painstakingly restored since, the cabin sits on a forested bluff high above a wide river frequented by ospreys, eagles, geese, herons, and other water fowl.
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'Indiana Jones' wasn't physically tough, but they are the only two films I've ever been ill on. On 'The Last Crusade,' I got sciatica. That's when the sciatic nerve, which goes through the funny hole in your pelvis down your leg, swells and rubs against the nerves.
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I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.
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Attention is the way social primates measure status. It is highly rewarding because it causes the release of brain chemicals such as dopamine and endorphins.
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We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.
