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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Money isn't something I play for. I want to compete. I want to win.
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The way to a man's heart is through his hanky pocket with a breadknife.
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If I hear a story or a fact about somebody I don't know and have never met, it's like getting a hollow vessel that you can fill up with whatever you want. That's more tempting to me than to try to replicate what I actually know.
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As a child marooned in a post-war South London backwater with no ready cash and a bafflingly dysfunctional family, I had to glean my amusement wherever I could.
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People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.
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Seeing the rich and famous screw up makes us feel superior, or at least not quite so inferior.
