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Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.
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Presidents tend to tinker, you know, and mess everything up.
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Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.
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If you say the word amnesty - the 'A-word,' so to speak - it's DOA. If there's even a hint of amnesty in my district, it's dead on arrival.
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I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel.
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I've seen so many scripts, and I want to do everything. Like with kiteboarding, you have to be fearless. I'm not scared.
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Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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'The Odyssey' is the great tale, and I was really taken by 'The Iliad,' so I dig into those things, and when I was a kid I didn't. You've gotta have a certain level of understanding yourself before that stuff really starts to resonate.
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You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.
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In television, you are of necessity working in bits and pieces and scenes, and things are out of order, and you never can have the same sense of how will this look when it's all put together, what will the effect be.
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Critics have a job to do. They do not criticise you without reason.
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If you don't find a new website when you Stumble, we've failed.
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If you don't like me, it's your problem.
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First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.
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The Protestant Reformation had a lot to do with the printing press, where Martin Luther's theses were reproduced about 250,000 times, and so you had widespread dissemination of ideas that hadn't circulated in the mainstream before.
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A blowtorch is a wonderful thing. You can get one of those for about 25 bucks at Home Depot. And there's a ton of things that you can use a blowtorch for, in browning a steak or touching up the browning of a chicken or making creme brulee.
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You have to follow that next step.
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Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
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If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.
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No need for everyone to look the same. The secret is to wear what suits you best!
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It's really weird to be taken seriously for what you're wearing. It makes me want to wear a uniform.
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I plan on staying at Alabama for the rest of my career. I guarantee that I'll be here for you through it all, regardless of what happens.
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Find something that makes you happy and go for it.
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Denise Mina is probably one of the most gifted writers out there, whether it's mystery or literary or whatever label you want to give it.
