Marion Jones Quotes
You forget that sometimes people are out there to get you - they don't even have a reason.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
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The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of 'the dark times' of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
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We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'
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I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of 'spreading propaganda against the system,' 'insulting members of the parliament through paintings' and 'insulting the Supreme Leader' with her cartoon.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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It's hard to leave behind scenes and characters I am in love with.
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It took me many years to figure out how to structure a compelling story.
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I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.
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This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose the idea of a golden mountain.
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You can't be hesitant about who you are.
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You forget that sometimes people are out there to get you - they don't even have a reason.
