Jack Adams Quotes
If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
Quotes to Explore
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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If you have a happy home, everything is sorted, I guess.
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I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.
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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.
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I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.
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Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.
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Business is tough; you need tough guys.
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.
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After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
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I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.
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There's no continuity in videos... you can jump around all over the place. In features, you can't throw in a close-up of a musician stomping on a guitar - you have to film a scene.
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You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.
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I find myself thinking more about the past as I get older... maybe because there's just more of it to think about. At the same time, I'm less haunted by it than I was as a younger person. I guess that's probably the ideal: to reach a point where you have access to all of your memories, but you don't feel victimized by them.
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You can only govern men by serving them. The rule is without exception.
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I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
