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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When I started, we still filed checks by signature. We didn't even have account numbers.
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When I started to write it, it got to be too big, it got to be 250, 300 pages, ... I said, well, I can't do this. The studio will never allow this. I will take the first half, make a movie out of that, and then I was determined to come back and finish the other three, or other two stories.
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When I started to do it, my dad said, 'be very careful with your facts'. And we double-sourced every single scene
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We do not have too many options left and we certainly won't be taking any risks with the Rangers match so close.
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We fell behind because we were soft and let (the Nets) get into their rhythm. Mentally we gave them the first half.
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We felt we had to jump on them early. They were a Cinderella team, and I told them the longer you let them hang around, the more things could go in their favor. We had to get out and squash them.
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This occasional sports columnist, who has been to his share of Super Bowls, had been glad to be home on Super Bowl Sunday, but the scary commercials made me want to be in the melee of the arena, where you are not aware of commercials.
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We should have a better defense with more experienced girls in the field. The inexperienced girls are gone. It was a struggle defensively, as well as offensively, last season. The new girls we have should fill the void adequately. More than adequately, actually.
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We should expect the insurgency not to just go away, but to gradually reduce.
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We should do OK. We need to stick to what we know, keep plugging and see what happens.
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We're different than the gas companies in that the pass-through charge for us is fixed as part of the transition to deregulation in Pennsylvania.
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We think Tallahassee's a good market. It has two major universities and is the seat of government as well as associations throughout Florida.
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We think our spring league is the best in the state. Our softball youth just keep getting better and better and better. The athletic growth of these players has been phenomenal and we feel we have been a part of that.
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We think most people won't use the test, but it will be a deterrent because they will bring it up.