Fred Kaplan Quotes

A recommendation to scholars: Write only one book about Lincoln; give it your best shot, and then move on.

Fred Kaplan

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You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.

John Abizaid

PowerPlantYouNewBuildYears

I think when you watch the dailies, the film that you shoot every day, you're very excited by it and very optimistic about how it's going to work.

Joel Coen

WorkDayThinkYouEvery DayGoing

My influences are all over the place. Different films have spoken to me at different times in my life, and they've helped create my idea of the kind of films I want to make.

Andrew Haigh

LifeMeMy LifePlaceCreateKind

I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?

Jean-Claude Duvalier

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When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing.

Roger Waters

GuitarFirstGotSpanishThing

Teen fiction should be about teenagers - no matter how many arguments there are about what YA lit should be, this seems like the one thing we can all agree on.

Robin Wasserman

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The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.

Matt Blunt

PastPresentStandPoliticalAbove

I have had the occasion to meet child actors from the '60s and '70s at various functions, and everyone's gone on to various different lives - they're real-estate agents or surfers.

Mike Lookinland

ChildMeetEveryoneGoneDifferent

There is a lot of pretty horrific stuff that happens, and I don't usually get those kinds of characters who get to go to those places.

Jason Momoa

GoPlacesPrettyGetStuffHappens

Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.

Arthur Erickson

BuildingAmericaNowhereNorth

For the entire state of Georgia, having the premiere of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late.

Anne Edwards

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Until 1985, when my lab found the protein they are made of, aquaporins hadn't yet been identified. There had been a controversy in biology for more than 100 years about how water moved through cells.

Peter Agre

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