Douglas William Jerrold Quotes
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The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
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Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
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You can’t contain an organization that is running roughshod through that much territory, causing that much havoc, displacing that many people, killing that many innocents, enslaving that many women. The goal has to be to dismantle them.
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.
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The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?
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He who sleeps without offering the night prayer, may he never enjoy a sound sleep.
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The sharp employ the sharp; verily, a man may be known by his attorney.
