A Quote by David Maraniss

Natural politicians are skilled actors, recreating reality, adjusting and ad-libbing, synthesizing the scenes, saying the same thing over and over again and making it seem that theyare saying it for the first time.

David Maraniss

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David Maraniss
American - Journalist
Born: 1949

We're interested by public personas and private personas, otherwise we wouldn't put on with actors rambling on with the same kind of stuff, over and over again, saying variations of the same thing. I'm always amazed by how fascinated people still are by actors because it's the same version of events that actors describe, all the time.

Toby Jones

This business of saying the same thing over and over and over again – which to a lot of Washington insiders and pundits is boring – works.

Michael Deaver

The last thing we want is a monolithic viewpoint where six people are standing before a president saying the same thing over and over again.

John Lewis

Flatulency today consists in saying simply in several different ways the same thing over and over again.

Henry Seidel Canby

You see, some kids, the college coaches are calling them at all hours of the night, saying the same thing over and over again.

Andre Drummond

Sometimes I say working on a story in a writers' room is like saying the same word over and over and over again until it doesn't make sense anymore. Like, you say it until you don't know what you're saying.

Marti Noxon

When actors try new things, cinema also gains a lot from it. At the same time, the nature of the business is such that if something works, people offer the same thing to you over and over again.

Sunny Singh

There's the old saying that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is the definition of insanity. There are few better places to apply that adage than the drug war. It's time to end it. It's time to restore peace and harmony to Latin America and the United States. It's time to end the failed war on drugs. It's time to legalize drugs.

Jacob G. Hornberger

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The same sports sayings seem to be used over and over again. If you have your own favorite sport saying and would like to share it, or possibly a story you would like to add please continue to our contributor page.

Mary Lynn Rajskub

A leader has to keep saying the same things over and over again.

Drew Gilpin Faust

I have the same themes over and over again. How I'm saying it keeps changing or growing.

Joyce Tenneson

There's not much longevity in music today. It's so easy to go in, put some pretentious lyrics on, with people saying the same thing over and over and over.

Patti LaBelle

I'm a more skilled writer now, but after 23 books it's harder to be fresh and that's really important to me. I don't want to write the same thing over and over again.

Judy Blume

I regularly see leaders change what they say because they get bored of saying the same thing over and over again. It's not that they vary a few words or change examples, but they change the message.