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“I was so mad at my agent. I had polished and polished and polished [the play], and he referred to it as a draft. I wrote him a bitter letter: How can you call this a draft? I don't do drafts! By now I've done 18, and its turning, in the rehearsal room, into a 19th.”
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“To accuse is so easy that it is infamous to do so where proof is impossible!”
Source : Zoë Akins (1923). “Déclassée: Daddy's gone a-hunting; and Greatness - a comedy ...”
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“The only way to change the future is to change the present.”
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“We all know from growing up with TV that John Wells shows are usually very large ensembles with amazingly written characters. He tends to redefine the way stories are told in a specific genre, whether it's 'China Beach,' 'The West Wing,' or 'E.R.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.”
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“I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over the common details...”
Source : Thomas Cole (1969). “Thomas Cole”
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“People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.”
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“My heart belongs to you,' He promised. 'Would you have loved me when I was a girl?' 'I have always loved you. Even before I met you I loved the idea of you.”
Source : John Landis (2005). “Terrorism Subdues Now Save the Planet”, p.95, Trafford Publishing
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“No, not like this, when I have not seen you without your skin on, when I know nothing, when I am not safe. Not you, whose name all my nightmares know.”
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“Obviously in the Senate we have all types of different people, all kinds of different folks that have come from all types of different backgrounds—and I think that’s part of that sense of entitlement that he gives off is that, almost like, I served my country, let me into the Senate. But that’s not how it works in Arkansas.”
Source : "Is Cotton Putting It Away?" by Ramesh Ponnuru, www.nationalreview.com. March 5, 2014.