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" I love London. "
Rob Lowe
I Love
London
Love
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" For me, the battle is finding the balance between wanting to spend time with my boys and then having enough perspective to still be the disciplinarian and, like, not be in the best friend business. "
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Time
Me
Business
" My deep dark secret is that I was a nerd in school. I liked the theater. I liked to study. I wasn't very good at sports. "
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Study
Dark
Deep
" What's gratifying about West Wing is that everybody told us that it couldn't be done - that the man or woman on the street didn't care about politics. But if you set things up correctly, people don't have a problem with it. "
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Politics
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" When I hear that I realize how quickly time passes and how everybody goes on their journeys and they're always unbelievable and they never go where you think they're going to take you and, quite frankly, it also makes me feel a little old. "
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Feel
Time
Think
" Cannes is a little bit like French wine. There are certain years that people prefer over others. "
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Over
Wine
People
" I'd love to serve my country. I would love it. "
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Country
Would
Serve
" I've always been involved in politics, since I was 8 or 9 years old. I sold Kool-Aid for McGovern - I could always pick a winner. "
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Old
Politics
Involved
" After my parents' divorce when I was 4, I spent weekends with my dad before we finally moved to California. By the time Sunday rolled around, I was incapable of enjoying the day's activities, of being in the moment, because I was already dreading the inevitable goodbye of Sunday evening. "
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Time
Parents
Moment
" I've been on TV a long time, and I've never had a catch phrase. "
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Time
Catch
TV
" Temperamentally, Sam and I are very much alike. He's a lawyer, my father's a lawyer, and I always wanted to play one. On so many levels the role just felt right. I fell in love with it as I would a woman. "
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Woman
Lawyer
Father
" I have never felt at any point in my life, good or bad, any ill will ever from the man or woman on the street. "
Rob Lowe
My Life
Life
Good
" I'm a Hollywood pinhead; I don't know about political labels. "
Rob Lowe
Know
Political
Labels
" I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things. "
Rob Lowe
Sobriety
Family
My Life
" We always reminisce about how everyone tried to get Diane Lane's attention, to very little success. "
Rob Lowe
Always
Success
Everyone
" I love anything by Joan Didion. Incidentally, she was one of the local moms when I was growing up in Point Dume. She always reminded me a little bit of my mother, so I feel a great affinity. I love the precision of Didion's writing. There's a construction and a craftsmanship to her sentences that's imbued with so much emotion. "
Rob Lowe
Love
Writing
Growing Up
" When you're writing personal stories, you have to be totally uncompromising - to the extent that you can be - about yourself. I know that if I am uber-uncompromising with myself, that gives me some latitude to write about others. "
Rob Lowe
Yourself
I Am
Me
" The first private space of my own wasn't a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma. "
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Hotel
Space
Own
" I was a child of the '80s. "
Rob Lowe
Child
" When I started on 'The West Wing,' that was at a time when this was still a stigma, because movie stars didn't do TV. Now, every movie star is desperate to find their 'True Detective.' "
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Find
Now
Star
" I look at it like this: that if Shakespeare were alive today, he would have written two or three plays about the Kennedy family, and actors would traditionally play JFK like they Hamlet or King Lear. They just would. I mean, people have played JFK, and they'll play him long after I have. "
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King
Today
People
" Television is populated with commitment-phobes. "
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Television
" My parents did divorce, but my dad has always been present for me and loving me and my mom as well when she was alive. "
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Divorce
Loving
Me
" Here's my theory: If a person gets worldwide fame at a young age, they're emotionally frozen at that moment. For me, that's 15 to 18, so you find yourself in your mid-20s being a glorified 15-year-old. What could possibly go wrong? "
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You
Fame
Me
" Eleven days before 9/11, I was on a plane with the 9/11 hijackers who were carrying out a dry run. "
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Days
Dry
Before
" In spite of being professionally gregarious, in my nonpaid hours I'm a bit of a hermit. After being around a crew of fifty people for twelve hours a day on a film set, I really like my alone time, and as always, I abhor small talk. "
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Alone
Time
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" I had had some successes in the '90s, always made money, but the truth was I was like a man pushing a boulder up a hill. A huge, heavy, difficult boulder made up of some career mistakes, projects that didn't meet expectations, and twenty years of being a known quantity. "
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Truth
Mistakes
Man
" I had met my now wife, Sheryl, and was attempting my first try at monogamy, which was not really in my nature at the time, and I wasn't able to do it. "
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Try
Wife
Time
" Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks have prevented people from seeing my work. "
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Women
People
Beautiful
" I'm a true centrist: my beliefs put me in the middle... You know what happens to people who drive in the middle of the road? They get run over. "
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