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I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed.
Tim Robbins

Confidence, Enough, Start

I had faith in the concept and the theory that all Americans are endowed with the right to a fair trial and I would be fairly judged and fairly tried.
Wesley Snipes

Faith, Fair, Tried

I suppose directing on set is the most fun because it's a good crack and you feel you're on the battlefield whereas writing is a fairly solitary undertaking.
Guy Ritchie

Good, Fun, Writing

We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.
Neil LaBute

Humans, Barbarous, Bunch

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.
Clifford Geertz

General, Feminist, Female

If I'm excited about it, I'm pretty sure an audience is going to enjoy it. If I'm bored with an idea, you can bet they're going to be asleep. So I try to only do things that I'm fairly excited about.
Robert Rodriguez

Bored, Enjoy, Pretty

I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.
Mary MacLane

Happy, Mother, Wife

When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.
Walter Cronkite

President, Needs, Unknown

As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.
Kate Smith

Car, Country, Around

Alabama farmers want a chance to complete fairly in Japan, but they can't if the Japanese won't let us in.
Mike Rogers

Chance, Won, Complete

If we do discover more than one type of life on Earth, we can be fairly certain that the universe is teeming with it, for it would be inconceivable that life started twice here but never on all the other earth-like planets.
Paul Davies

Life, Here, Universe

We've sent 130 men to death row to be executed in this country, at least 130 that we know of, who have later have been exonerated because they were either innocent, or they were not fairly tried. That's 130 people that we've locked down on death row. And they've spent years there.
John Grisham

Men, Death, Down

I'm fairly competitive.
Michael Fassbender

I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis.
Mira Nair

Place, Another, Dream

I think I'm fairly good with money, but I've developed some strange tics - in shops I don't like to go to the counter unless I've got at least two things to buy. If I'm walking around with just one thing in my hand I'll put it back and wait a few weeks because that doesn't seem like a proper purchase.
Sophie Ellis Bextor

Good, Money, Two

I think Gov. Romney and Congressman Ryan are living in a fairly tale land on their energy policy.
Ken Salazar

Living, Energy, Land

I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
Sade Adu

Marriage, Someone, Difficult

I'm not over the top; I'm not wacky. I'm fairly understated, and that reflects in the way I sing.
Sade Adu

Top, Sing, Wacky

Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.
Roger Bannister

Life, Simple, Parents

If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
Wendell Berry

Nature, Eat, Welfare

You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
Barry Sanders

Grades, Reflected

Yeah, two or three weeks ago I was fairly snappy. I've never been injured before and this year it feels like I've hardly played.
Lee Westwood

Two, Before, Year

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.
Andrew Bird

History, Read, Rest

I'm a fairly private person.
Ben Whishaw

Person, Private

The thing about acting is that it's fairly random. At the end of the day you take what drifts past you or what's given to you.
Ben Whishaw

End, Past, Acting

Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and employment, and to promote a stable and efficient financial system that serves all Americans well and fairly.
Ben Bernanke

Growth, Congress, Financial

The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke new ideas about how pieces can be put together in different ways. I think this is a more modern way to wear clothes that in themselves are fairly classic.
Jean Paul Gaultier

Together, Different, Trying

Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.
Scott Cook

Simple, Decisions, Financial

I think the one thing about me is I'm a fairly demanding guy, and I give a great deal of myself, and I expect that in return.
Mike Quade

Great, Give, Guy

I elect to stay on the soil of which I was born and on the plot of ground which I have fairly bought and honestly paid for. Don't advise me to leave, and don't add insult to injury by telling me it's for my own good; of that I am to be the judge.
Robert Purvis

Good, Judge, Insult

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