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I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee.

Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.

Jazz was uplifted by what I did.

A federal judge did as he was supposed to do and upheld the Constitution. We should be thankful that we have judiciary that will do that.

I'd like to do a piece of Shakespeare. Any upcoming Shakespeare film. Just a bit to say I did a classic.

My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense.

The "what should be" never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no "what should be," there is only what is.

One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.

If you're hit with a lawsuit that's untrue and the reasons you're hit with it aren't clear to you, there's a very big inclination on people's part to want to take responsibility for it - that this must be happening because I'm a terrible person, I did something, and I'm getting repaid for it.

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.

I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards.

Not until my middle thirties did I consider myself a novelist.

Animation did not become the dominant form of children's television until the '60s.

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream.

In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.

The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later.

I have been unsure, from the start, what the Occupy movement was all about, although I did suspect that it was just fatuous, anti-enterprise, left-wingery.

The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me.

I just did what I did and I still am. It makes you unpopular, maybe for a lifetime, but I'd rather do that than be popular and doubt what I am.

I've built my career on unpaid interns, and the interns told me it was great - I learned more from you than I did in college.

I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.

And on this you have my pledge - unlike in the past, when you stood up and did what was right, this governor will not pull the rug out from underneath you - I will sign strong reform bills.

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.

I don't like everybody knowing what I'm doing, unless it's related to a movie. I don't like speaking to the press. I never did.

The frustrating part of it is that you're generally known for what you did last. I've had the privilege of doing some very cool independent films that, a lot of the time, the general public doesn't see unless you're at a film festival or you're into that kind of movie.

I've just done a commercial in the U.S. in which I talk about stocks, shares and bonds. Everyone is amazed. They ask me: 'You really know about that stuff or did you just learn it for the commercial?' I tell them I wouldn't do it unless I understood and had an interest.

I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had to have the character's costume on before I could rehearse it. I just couldn't think as the character unless I looked like him, or I knew that I looked like him.

I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.