J. B. Pritzker Quotes
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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I think when you suffer a tremendous loss, everybody needs love and support in tangible ways. And that's what people have done for us.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
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Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
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There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.
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Every man is his own Pygmalion, and spends his life fashioning himself. And in fashioning himself, for good or ill, he fashions the human race and its future.
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But so much of being an actor isn't so great - the auditioning, the rejection, the financial insecurity.
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I'm a big fan of 'Star Wars.' Some of the most iconic characters of 'Star Wars,' we didn't see their faces but to this day you can say Jabba the Hutt or Darth Vader and people know what you mean around the world.
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I play piano and write better than I can sing.
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I'm an independent thinker and independent leader. I have been my whole life.
