"You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday."
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"Any act can be a prayer, if done as well as we are able."
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"Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I'm done reading."
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"I have done a lot of work in Hollywood myself. I worked in television for roughly 10 years, from the mid-'80s to mid-'90s. And I was on staff at a couple of shows. I did some feature films, including originals and adaptations."
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"The worst isn't done. The worst is just beginning, and there are no happy endings. (Samuel Tarly)"
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"What could he have done, one man against so many?" He could have tried, Brienne thought."
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"I thought my song was beginning that day, but it was almost done."
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"My strength has not equaled my mad ambition. I have remained obscure; I have done worse -- I have touched success, and allowed it to escape me."
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"For it is fixed principle with me, that whatever is done should be done well."
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"Providence has done, and I am persuaded is disposed to do, a great deal for us; but we are not to forget the fable of Jupiter and the countryman."
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"Twenty minutes into his presidency, Donald Trump, who is always claiming to have made, or to be about to make, astonishing history, had done so. Living down to expectations, he had delivered the most dreadful inaugural address in history."
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"In my day, everything came from my belly button and seat of the pants. Today, everything is done from research."
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"It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is bad sign in a nation when such things are done very well, for it shows that only a few experts and eccentrics are doing them, and that the nation is merely looking on."
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"I am myself so exceedingly Nordic, as far as physical constitution is concerned, that I can enjoy almost any weather except what is called glorious weather. At the end of a few days, I am left wondering how the men of the Mediterranean ever managed to do almost all the most active and astonishing things that have been done."
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"Obviously if any actions, even a lunatic's, can be causeless, determinism is done for. If the chain of causation can be broken for a madman, it can be broken for a man."
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"If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it."
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"As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing."
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"The Americans only like things they can label, even if it kills them. Think of those poor Latin American writers. Some of them are very good. But the "magical realism" label has absolutely ruined them. The critics are like tourists who return from a trip saying they've "done" Machu Picchu: "Okay, we've done magical realism," so now we can throw it out."
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"If 'Mystery Train' is my Nixon book and 'Lipstick Traces' my Reagan book, 'Invisible Republic' is my Bill Clinton book. I really liked Clinton. He made me proud to be part of this country again. For all of his failings, the way he put all that he'd done in jeopardy, I supported him from beginning to end."
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"There are dozens of unfinished or aborted projects in my files, but I can only assume they don't get done because they're not robust enough to struggle through the birth process."
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