Jack Adams Quotes
Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.
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Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation.
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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I think the silences we have on some issues are inductive of the fact that we need to write about them more, but I think there are some issues you have to write in a sensitive way and in a way that respects the reality of the situation. If you can't do that, you should leave them alone.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
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What's weird is having your mother fly in on an aeroplane with your face on the side of it.
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I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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I like the pressure.
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The more you use your mind, the more you'll have to use.
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As you know, I'm a black girl out of the projects of New York City, raised in a single parent home because my parents divorced very very young... welfare and homeless at four and then again at 16 and just not having the things or the necessary tools that society would say I needed to have in order to be any kind of success in life.
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Usually, if you see the environment destroyed, it’s not because that's necessary for development. It's usually because we're being lazy, and we're not being as creative as we could be about how to do it in a smarter, sustainable way.
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Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.
