Will Shields Quotes

Genre is a minimum security prison.

The beauty of reality-based art - art underwritten by reality hunger - is that it's perfectly situated between life itself and (unattainable) "life as art".

You're one of 6.5 billion people now on the planet, and 99.9 percent of your genes are the same as everyone else's.

I'm wonderfully self-lacerating, probably to my character's detriment. I'm terribly open to critique.

One person's dream is another's reality.

Don't worry, Evie; my heart isn't broken, only bruised.

Every ending is also a beginning. We'll meet again, I promise.

As long as you're open-minded you can learn stuff from anyone.

The French were always masters at mid-range. And I like the attitude.

I love when things bend out of shape. That's why I love drum and bass music.

The technical reason why remastering is valuable is because, up to around the late 90s, there was this endpoint called zero, and you couldn't get louder than zero.

The organizing principle of the United States defensive foreign policy had been opposition to the Soviet Union. There is no more Soviet Union.

The measure of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, but whether, as Franklin Roosevelt said, we provide enough for those who have too little.

If Mitt Romney had got the percentage Ronald Reagan did of Hispanics, he would have defeated Barack Obama.

There is no tougher job in America than being a cop on the beat in a major city in this country, big and brawling.

There are people who know Hillary Clinton who tell wonderful stories about her, how likable she is, how funny she is; 99 percent of American people don't - have never seen that side of her.

Donald Trump picked a remarkably nice guy in Mike Pence.

Let's give the president some due here. They had a mess, and he fixed it, and they mobilized a lot of authority, and they did it.

The president has to have the trust, earn the trust, maintain the trust of people in order to lead. And there's nothing that will lose it quicker than a sense that he's in it for a quick buck.

I think Donald Trump is obviously the more colorful, the more flamboyant, the more dominant personality.

All politics is personal with President Trump. And that carries with it great, great problems.

Donald Trump manages to personalize everything. He brings chaos. He will not admit that he's ever made a mistake, that he's ever been wrong.

Now the Republicans have a very low-scale, by economic standards, base. Donald Trump has.

It doesn't have to be the same line that we have had for the last 40 years, because that clearly isn't working on any level. But you have got to have a pretty clear line on this crucial issue.

The fact is that it's the most dangerous place to be on the political scale is to brand those on the other side as racist. That's the atomic bomb. That's the nuclear weapon of an American.

Mitt Romney looks like a secretary of state. He looks like the chancellor of the exchequer.

[In politics] when A goes after B and there's a C, and D and a Q all lined up there, you have no idea who's going to be the beneficiary.

Sometimes, you just let the country have its way, and you don't try to determine the shape of the country. You sort of modestly step back and let the country figure out what it believes.

The Republicans, they are in the danger of rooting for the country to fail. They look bad that way, I mean, and I want to say to them, cheer up, Republicans. Eventually, things will get worse.

Critics of Donald Trump take him literally, but not seriously. His supporters take him seriously, but not literally.

Health care, it's going to be political. It's going to be, let's say, the confluence of the politics and the messy implementation.

That's what the conservative movement has become, is basically an annex of the [Donald] Trump campaign.

Tim Kaine kind of gives the warmer, human face of the Democrats.

Now Republicans are a more interventionist party than they have been at any time since George W. Bush left office.

I do think, over the last years, a lot of Republicans have decided it's not working, what the party believed in, free trade, global capitalism, open borders.

You can't have someone with a pinkie out there at the U.N. or any other place.

Iraq is in a civil war. There is no road in that country that is safe.

Let's not pretend that all of a sudden, this is some new system.

I do look upon the secretary of education's primary responsibility as the quality of education that - and improving the education that every child in American public schools receives.

90 percent of American schoolchildren are in public schools. And the emphasis on private schools and charter schools and parochial schools is not unimportant.

There is a cleavage and a divide in America like I have never seen before.

If you're on the other side from me, you're not simply wrong or ill-informed or mistaken. We don't share the same country, the same values. You may not be the same kind of an American I am.

One of the first things every press secretary assures you is, the boss has a wonderful sense of humor, because not to have a sense of humor is considered flagrantly un-American.

Stronger together is, I think, a preposition and a comparative adjective, but it's not really an action verb or what it is.

Mitt Romney was the man who stood up to Donald Trump early, hard, never wavered.

Everyone has to take Donald Trump seriously, and I think that's what we're seeing.

The problem is that what Donald Trump said, if you take it literally now, is cause for anxiety and nervousness.

[The Republicans] looked at basically the failed wars and they said, oh, this, us being the policeman of the world, that is not working.

Something really serious has shifted in the minds of Republicans and certainly others.

Donald Trump defies gravity. And so I guess he has to be Donald Trump. It's gotten him so far.