Neil Jordan (Neil Patrick Jordan) Quotes
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For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.
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The first president I met was L. B. J.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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I've always been a rough kid.
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We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.
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If people ask me to describe my look, I always say: 'Quite classic with an edge.'
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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I never said, 'I wouldn't help a cricketer if he approaches me.'
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All of the people are the dependents of Allah.
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Apart from education, you need good health, and for that, you need to play sports.
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When I was on 'The Big Gay Sketch Show' I thought, 'Well, this is going well now, but then when it's over I'll just be a barista.'
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To film in water is three times harder than just on land.
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Journalists ask me, 'Why don't you ever talk about sex in your performances?' True, I don't talk about sex – not in my personal life and not in my professional life. This is modesty.
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My dance teacher will show me pictures of girls who are rhythmic gymnasts, and they are super skinny. But I don't want to be too skinny. I think that looks a little gross when you are dancing. You don't want to be a scrawny, bony thing.
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I think I'm making music that's pretty universal.
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People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.
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To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
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I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Just as we have had great working lives, we have also had good personal lives. For instance, we have made school our number one priority. We have been in school our entire lives with kids our own age. We guess that's pretty regular.
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When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
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Michael Bloomberg is a sensible guy. He's just privileged. He's a goddamn billionaire, and he or his family members have never had to deal with anything as remotely degrading as stop and frisk. So he has no point of reference.
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We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.
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Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought.
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The End of the Affair is almost like a play.
