It's ABSOLUTELY true that it's almost IMPOSSIBLE to PLAY a character WITHOUT having any affection for him.
Read MoreA LOT of people resent that I've been in SOMEONE's life for 50 years. Why shouldn't people have an AFFECTION for me and what I've done? Didn't I have to be genuine for them to buy into what I did? There are children who GROW up today who will not have that when they're 55 years old. With whom will they have it? Name an EXAMPLE for me.
Read MoreFrom Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president INSPIRES enormous AFFECTION and enormous hostility. We'll all be MUCH saner, I think, if we remember that HISTORY is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.
Read MoreI live a perfectly happy and COMFORTABLE life in Blair's BRITAIN, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've CREATED for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of REAL value and meaning.
Read MoreOnce they have actually left office, we seem to grow fonder of our ex-presidents - and they of each other. That's why so many sighed in approval at Michelle Obama's public DISPLAY of affection with George W. BUSH at last month's DEDICATION of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture.
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