Jack Gilbert Quotes
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I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.
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I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
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I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.
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You know sometimes it's not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?
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You have to open up on stage.
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Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
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I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.
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'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
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The idea is a straightforward one. We provide an account for every newborn in America, a $500 account.
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Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.
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My parents loved each other. I was raised in a house of total love and respect. My dad worked very hard and my mother was incredibly devoted to him. I can unequivocally, without any peradventure of doubt, tell you that I was raised with the kind of love that we only dream of.
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Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.
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I want people to understand my journey and to be inspired by that. You can be an immigrant, and if you work really hard, you can have your own restaurant.
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Speak low to me, my Saviour, low and sweet,From out the hallelujahs, sweet and low,Lest I should fear, and fall, and miss Thee so,Who art not missed by any that entreat.
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The heart lies to itself because it must.
