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• I met a bunch of comic-book writers at the Metropolis convention and there was such an interesting discussion about the story of ‘Supergirl’ and trying to get it right. It can be a challenge, because you don’t want it to be the same as the Superman story.

  Helen Slater

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• One of my movies was called ‘True Lies.’ It’s what the Democrats should have called their convention.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

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• There is nothing more conventional than the convention of unconventionality.

  R.H.Benson

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• It’s not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it’s a convention of drama. If you don’t get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.

  Ian Hart

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• I only went to one Star Trek convention and that was in the late ’80s. I hadn’t gone to a convention before that. It was quite amusing, with the people dressed up and all of that.

  Persis Khambatta

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• I’ve just got into the convention circuit in the last couple of years and it’s great to see all these people who are still interested in the show. It’s so gratifying to hear that so many people enjoyed the work that Erin and I have done.

  Gil Gerard

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• I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that’s about the extent of it.

  George Takei

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• This isn’t really a convention, This is really an infomercial. And every night we’ll have a different infomercial and people view it with a certain level of cynicism.

  Susan Estrich

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• I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their s*xual preference, because once you go down that road, why don’t you pick a transvestite?

  Gary Bauer

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• I think we’ve established a convention on the show that allows us to do pretty much anything we want to.

  Thayer David

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• It’s always interesting – how do you actually convey thought through song? We’re used to the convention on stage. In film, we used to be used to it, and now sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. You need to be fresh and really look at the material.

  Hugh Jackman

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• There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention.

  Charles Guggenheim

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• I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.

  Anthony Kiedis

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• The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.

  Emanuel Celler

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• The dream of the Convention was born from the that children and their needs were not been considered when policies were being made, laws passed or actions undertaken.

  Carol Bellamy

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• The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn’t prove that that was wrong; so we’re clearer about that.

  Peter Albert David Singer

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• Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.

  John Yoo

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• The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

  Tom Stoppard

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