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Bob Gunton Quotes

Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: November 15, 1945

Topics

War Signature Vietnam May Off Nixon

When I first started in the industry, there were - this is prior to the era of computer graphics and all these digital tools - there were some pretty rigid, technologically imposed limitations about how you shoot things, because if you didn't shoot 'em the right way, you couldn't make the shot work.

Work Tools You Way Digital Right

I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.

Beauty Confidence Character Young

We must be capable of writing our own history.

History Writing Capable Own Must

If you have someone in your life that you are grateful for - someone to whom you want to write another heartfelt, slanted, misspelled thank you note - do it. Tell them they made you feel loved and supported. That they made you feel like you belonged somewhere and that you were not a freak. Tell them all of that. Tell them today.

Life Today Grateful Thank You Loved

As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for a few years when I was reading endless series. But in the end I became totally fed-up with all these sub-Tolkien rip-offs because they all end up doing the same old things and there's no rigour to it.

Jonathan Stroud

Child Reading End Doing Fantasy Old

For years, I did whatever I could just to pay the bills and gain experience and work with as many different people as I could.

Diego Klattenhoff

Work Experience People Pay Whatever

The thing about being black in a mostly white industry, particularly as a black male, is you can't lose your temper in the same way. Essentially, you are an angry black man losing his temper in a way that's unprofessional, as opposed to an industry that has protected unprofessional white males in perpetua.

Cheo Hodari Coker

Man Angry Losing Black You Lose

I don't even own a bike.

Christian Cooke

The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.

Time Best Day Government Wind View

We now enter a new age of American history, and the question to be answered is this: Will we restore the republic our forefathers created, or will we allow it to be annihilated by those who hate America, its history, and all it stands for?

Augustus Sol Invictus

Age History Hate American America

In terms of my own experience, my dad is first-generation, so his parents were from China, and my mom was born and raised in southern Illinois, and she was involved in the arts. My dad's a doctor.

Experience Parents Mom Doctor Born

Washington, D.C. is full of think tanks, theoreticians and advocacy groups. Governors are the ones whose feet are on the ground.

Feet Think Washington Ground Whose

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