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Jack Kemp Quotes

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: July 13, 1935 - May 2, 2009

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Good Perspective Football Politics

It's a real honor to have my stories up on the big silver screen, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. It's great fun flying out to L.A. for premieres and meeting all the actors and directors.

Great Fun Flying Honor Meeting Real

My goal and my career is definitely not to be famous. That's a really horrible goal, just to be famous for the sake of having fame.

Famous Career Goal Fame Horrible

I can think of no other experience quite like that of being 20 or so pages into a book and realizing that this is the real thing: a book that is going to offer the delicious promise of a riveting story, arresting language and characters that will haunt me for days.

Experience Me Book Story Think Will

I've been blacklisted in Hollywood.

The Western world needs to ally themselves against the evil that is political Islam. To unite with its practitioners would be to unite with evil. Anyone who sees that as a virtue is simply enabling evil and, by proxy, is evil themselves.

Evil World Political Islam Virtue

I play characters, and I try to play them in a manner that's appropriate to the script. Physical movement and vitality of language is part of character.

Tommy Lee Jones

Character Language Play Try Movement

My first song was called 'Portrait.' It would just be poetry, and I really never understood how to write the structure of writing a song. I just knew the feeling, and I knew it was supposed to break and change at the same part, so that's how I write music.

Change Music Poetry Writing Song

My years in jail were a bit like a workshop for my - that actually forged my way of thinking and my values.

Thinking Values Jail Way Years Like

I love 'Downton Abbey.'

Jonathan Van Ness

Love Downton Abbey I Love Abbey

Writing is a little athletic for me. I get worked up a little bit when I do it. So I guess I'm a little bit like that composer conducting. There are a lot of things that go into what I do, but I think athletics really sort of shaped my ethic.

Me Writing Think Go Up Little

I'm not a victim - I'm a survivor of hunger, of hate, of different injustices that humans are facing today.

Clemantine Wamariya

Today Hate Survivor Victim Hunger

Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.

People Name Famous Tragedy Say Well

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