Jack Scalia Quotes
My great-grandfather was a police captain, and so was my grandfather. And then my dad spent 23 years as a cop in the Housing Authority.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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I do feel that the boys are getting left out. Girls will read boys' books, but boys won't read girls' books. If you're writing for a girl, you've got most of the audience on your side anyway.
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If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness. That's the space I entered when I met my guru.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?
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People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.
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For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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I love being a part of something so many people can relate to and enjoy.
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Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.
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You have to remember when we were going once a month, we were putting out issues that were 480 pages, and people were complaining that these were too big, I can't get through a 480 page magazine every month.
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It's all about learning your craft and honing it in and really paying attention to people who are doing it and what their advice is. It's like anything: it takes years and years and years. A lot of it comes down to work ethic.
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My pops passed when I was little. I didn't have a dad around to tell me certain things. I didn't have my biological mother.
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I think I said something mean when I was little, and my mother snapped on me. I was just like, 'I'm sorry!' I could relate. If I had cursed out my dad, I probably would be just waking up.
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I grew up watching my dad scout games live. They played on Saturday. Sometimes they wouldn't get the films until Monday. Sunday air shipping from wherever the college team was located - Starkville, Mississippi, or wherever the film was coming from. It took two days.
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My great-grandfather was a police captain, and so was my grandfather. And then my dad spent 23 years as a cop in the Housing Authority.
