Jacob Weisberg Quotes
Seeing the rich and famous screw up makes us feel superior, or at least not quite so inferior.
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.
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The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.
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Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.
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There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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There's always going to be a way for me to go around a defense or play mind games and find a way to win.
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It's not my business to think about the business; it's my business to think about the character. Sure, there have been times in my career where I wished I was more popular or more this or more that - but that's just stupid.
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I think actors are divided into two groups: one that wants to be an actor to become famous and rich, and the other that wants to be an actor because they have to be. I'm more in the second group.
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I love acting with kids, cause they're great acting partners. They're totally present. Even when they're acting, they're still available and you can crack them up or something weird will happen and they'll go with it.
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Most times, your blessings are also your curses. And for me, I have this ability to express myself so clearly with pen and paper, but when it comes to expressing myself verbally, I put up a big wall.
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Seeing the rich and famous screw up makes us feel superior, or at least not quite so inferior.
