Jack Adams Quotes
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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You can't tag me as a regional actress.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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I've always been a very prolific writer.
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People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
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On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
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My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
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In the beginning, I was so chintzy I really didn't pay my employees well.
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People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twists in our DNA that make us unique. America is exceptional because we were founded upon the notion that everyone should be free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.
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I would say I'm more fascinated by Big Daddy V than I am necessarily a huge fan of Big Daddy V. He simply threw on the double-strapped unitard... and now he's some sort of fearsome, fighting, wrecking machine.
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My mother is a strong woman. Her strength comes from being tested by life's unpredictability. It comes from soldiering on for her children, even when she might rather have given up. I know it hasn't always come easily, but I also know it's her greatest gift.
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I hate pork rinds. I couldn't imagine how anybody would ever get the idea of taking skin from a pig and frying it and then trying to sell it to people. And then people actually buy it to eat it. That is the true sign of the decline of the human race.
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For a production that suggests a mysterious dreamscape, I have a particular affection for the Vivian Beaumont Theater. It is the largest dramatic space available in New York City in terms of plays, although musicals have been done there very successfully as well.
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One great worker equals three not-so-great workers, so it's worth paying terrific people not just for today but to find people that we think have upward mobility to become tomorrow's leaders.
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I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
