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The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

Annoying Generally Going People
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I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.

Actor Am Banana Figured
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Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
Everything Except Films Makes
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.

Actor Body Control Enough
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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.

Afraid Dialogue Eight Going
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I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.

About Cleopatra Going Lot
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I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'

Done Every Failure Four
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When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points - 'Make sure you stay away from this,' and 'Don't say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,' and that kind of thing.

Away Because Being Bullet
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I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.
About Finally Growing Growing Up
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All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
America Begins Change Dinner
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If I am writing a movie and I am stuck, I can call the studio and tell them it's delayed. You can't do that with television - you have air dates to meet.

Air Am Call Dates
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I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?

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Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Bears Close Come First
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If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.

Certainly Dollars Down Dumb
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My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.

After Born Days Did
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The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.
Any Away Best Business
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People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz.

Call Dislike Elizabeth Elizabeth I
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Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

Been Best Dogs Horses
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The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

Civil Civil Service Examination Federal
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I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is really good writing time. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not a germaphobe: it's all about a fresh start.

About Anywhere Between Day
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I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

Afraid Age Certain Certain Age
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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Appetite Baby Big Canal
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When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So when David Fincher comes along and wants to direct 'The Social Network,' when Bennett Miller comes along and wants to direct 'Moneyball,' or when Danny Boyle wants to direct 'Jobs'? Hallelujah. I want them directing it.

Along Best Danny David
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I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too - for being married so many times.
Am Being Committed I Am
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Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Could Economy Few Government
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I'll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it's really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera.

Behind Better Camera Cast
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We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
Everyone Help Someone We
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Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.
Create Entertainment Eyes Interest
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It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Capacity Greater Our Our Time
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Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

Armed Deadly Frightening Hit
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I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

Afternoon Awake Coffee Drink
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The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

English English Language Government Help
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And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.

Any Beyond Feel Form
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And obviously, when I started out, I had a little bit more curiosity than some, and went seeking out the original artists, or in some cases searching up country music.

Artists Bit Cases Country
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But there are things in Il Sogno that the methods of The Delivery Man could never achieve.

Achieve Could Delivery Man
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Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.
Chance College Football Four
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No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

Actually Bureau Disappear Earth
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We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

Balancing Budget Closer Come
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If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

Around Been Creator Environmental
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My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.

Goal Going Hard Life
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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Does Government Problems Solve
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Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

Along Better Government Invent
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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

Back Crocodile Eat Feeding
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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Also Country Countrymen Love
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Because we're actors we can pretend and fake it, but I'd rather the intimate investment was authentic.

Because Actor Pretend Fake
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We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Accountable Actions American Broken
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It's always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you're seeing the most beautiful thing on God's Earth.

Always Wonderful Get Know
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No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting.

Cabinet Even Matter Me
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Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
About Because Came Four
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I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just... wouldn't have come up out of the water.

Just Felt That Went
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