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The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities.
Now, there are solutions to stop the cracking. For instance, down in Florida they pooled all the kids in a particular county and provided health insurance for them. The parents can buy private insurance for them if they wish, and if they need a bit of a subsidy they can get it. So it's a private insurance program covering all kids. And it's cheap.
Kids are cheap to insure, so they can go to the doctors, get the tests they need, and do what they should be doing to maintain their health. It's programs like these I think that we should give more consideration to in Congress.
If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too far apart you're not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything.
I was on two: the National Security Committee, and the Government Reform and Oversight Committee. First, the National Security Committee. If you know the first district in Maine, you know that we really have a district that is defense dependent. I asked to be on the National Security Committee because it related to the district.
I think the DLC did very important work getting the party moving again. If the Democrats want to retain their status as the majority party, they needed to refocus their agenda. They couldn't stay limited in Northeastern big cities and expect to survive.
I think that pulp and paper industry is still one of major industries in this state. You have to place some limits on as far as lumbering practices, and to make sure that there are some basic rules.
Hopefully in ten to twenty years our society will get to the point where sexual orientation is not as big of deal. I think passage of anti-discrimination laws is important step toward this goal. And I think we'll come back and we'll have another referendum in Maine again, at some point.
You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?
We remembered how they dressed. Phylicia and I grew up in the South, so we could also relate to that part of the story.
We could have done this movie very differently had we shot on the streets of Harlem and taken a 40-day shooting schedule.
Time management is a big part of the director's job.
They had a clear idea about what I really wanted to see, based on our initial conversations, and they did a great job.
There's always a certain degree of physical attraction between people and the rest either happens or it doesn't.
There were some scenes where I took ten takes and there were some where I took one.
There was too much to absorb. So we had about an 8-day rehearsal, a lot for a movie of this nature.
There was no question about who should play Lou Bessie. Crystal Fox brought to the role something that was really needed.
There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.
Then you give your actors broad strokes based on what your idea is for what is going on in the room and the circumstances surrounding it.
The upside is that high-definition is a lot cheaper and a lot faster.