George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
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No, I was never one of those positive people who believes he can have whatever he sets his sights on. I just kept working at it.
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It is a pretty odd profession - tickling people - but it can be lucrative.
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I was once fired as opening act for Seals and Crofts because I got loaded and introduced them as Arts and Crafts.
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I used to jog three miles a day, and then I saw I was getting a little bit older, so I started fast-walking three miles a day. Now I just drive.
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The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.
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I was what they call a pool hustler. That's absolutely true. For long periods of time I got by, barely skimmed by, just playing pool.
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President-elect Bush spoke in a forceful and candid manner that it is his passion that all children should have access to a first class education.
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Because when the film was first mooted, the Beatles didn't like the idea at all. In fact they wouldn't have any part in it. And when Brian had committed them, it was part of a deal he did with United Artists, I think.
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We're lucky, real lucky. Our friends lost their house. We just had some burning embers put holes in the screens.
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Well, I think, I certainly used backward music in Sea of Monsters. I can't remember in the Sea of Time. I would tend to do that all the time, you know? I tended to do all sorts of weird things. Just to get effects.
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I think that one of the nice things about the Yellow Submarine movie is that it seems to be perennial. People enjoy watching from each generation. And it was like the Beatles themselves. You know the Beatles seem to find new audience each time another generation comes along.
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And the young people in the 1960's identified with it immediately, because, I guess the young people had been having years of repression really. They felt that the, you know, after the war everything was very austere, particularly in Europe.
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When you extend life span, that's really something. That's hard to do.
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He was definitely a father figure for all of us. Once you were a Giant, you were always a Giant.