Jack Gilbert Quotes
I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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You have to recognize at some point that even though you have the passion and creative level to be able to do something, you might have to do a lot of prep. Sometimes you just can't do it as quickly as you want to do it.
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Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
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The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.
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I've been, for want of a better phrase, a supporting actress so much of my life.
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In the fields of southwest Iowa, my parents and grandparents worked and sacrificed. Like so many Iowans, the American Dream for them was never about wealth or fame. Their dream was to leave their children and grandchildren a better life, with greater opportunity, than their own.
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Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.
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It is hardly possible to maintain seriously that the evil done by science is not altogether outweighed by the good. For example, if ten million lives were lost in every war, the net effect of science would still have been to increase the average length of life.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
