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• History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Why
  • History

• From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Time
  • War
  • Cold

• We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn't play wives. That came later. But the most dreadful thing was when a star had to play a mother. That was the beginning of her professional end.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Mother
  • Star
  • Beginning

• At the end of the seven years, 'Family Ties' voluntarily went off the air. And, we went off as the #1 show on TV that week. We cut down the nets on stage 24 and moved on with the rest of our lives. Always to carry with us the blessing of what we had gone through together.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Family
  • Together
  • Rest

• I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Done
  • Realize
  • Knew

• You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Player
  • Doing
  • Greatest

• I'm an ensemble guy, I guess - that comes from the theater. If I ever won some kind of award someday, I imagine I'd try to be very gracious, but in the end, I just want to keep working. I don't see why that, if you just put your mind to it and keep sowing the right seeds, you can't keep doing the things you want to do.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Guy

• I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Work
  • Believe
  • American

• 'Witches of East End' is certainly wild, and so are a lot of other shows these days. But 'Twin Peaks' still holds the gold medal for strange. I think we'll hang onto that for all of TV eternity!

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Think
  • Gold
  • Twin

• I shampoo every other day and only do the roots. I can't shampoo all the way down to the end, because it will dry my hair out. I use a mask multiple times a week to restore moisture.

  

  Zendaya
  • Day
  • Hair
  • Roots

• So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • War
  • House
  • Decision

• One of the biggest mistakes people make when they cook for other people is to think that it has to be fancy and elaborate. This results in enormous expense and nine days of labor, plus you end up trying to assemble a croquembouche in front of your guests and everyone's experiencing flop sweat.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• The hardest part about this business is accepting the back end with the same love that you accepted the front end.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Business
  • Part
  • Accepted

• Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Good
  • End
  • Matter

• Whenever I go to L.A., the make-up artist or hairdresser will end up having a conversation about how fat they think they are, and I really just can't take it seriously at all.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Conversation
  • Fat

• The most-asked question when someone describes a novel, movie or short story to a friend probably is, 'How does it end?' Endings carry tremendous weight with readers; if they don't like the ending, chances are they'll say they didn't like the work. Failed endings are also the most common problems editors have with submitted works.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Question

• We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Age
  • End
  • 20th Century

• At the end of the day, I'm a man.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Man
  • Day
  • End

• I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.

  

  Carla Bley
  • World
  • Best
  • End

• Sometimes, violent details have been eliminated from fairy tales simply because they were deemed too graphic. So one does not, at the end of Disney's version of 'Cinderella,' see the stepsisters' eyes get pecked and pecked by doves, because Disney wanted to market the story for wholesome family viewing.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Family
  • Eyes
  • Disney

• Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Up
  • Suffering
  • Indifference

• Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So sometimes I'm shooting an episode and don't even know how it's going to end because I haven't read that yet.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Know
  • Sometimes
  • End

• By the end of 2008, clearly, the al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated. They actually said that in many of their transmissions that we were able to pick up. And the Shia militia, largely those trained by the Iranians in Basra and also in Sadr City, had been defeated.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Up
  • Mind
  • City

• It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Support
  • End
  • Complex

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