Jacques Plante Quotes
If you jump out of a plane without a parachute, does that make you brave? No, I think that makes you stupid. I will never play without the mask again.
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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All beautiful things in this world are because of women.
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I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.
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A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.
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The first story I finished was when I was six years old.
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I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.
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My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.
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Sometimes you have to understand your place.
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I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.
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People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don't mind.
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. It's a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and it's hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.
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My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.
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The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
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The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth.
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The good thing about poverty is it keeps you from getting in trouble because if you can't afford drugs, people will stop giving them to you very quickly. So, being poor really helps - it's the success that kills you.
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I've always had an interest in doing something that was outside my comfort zone; I had this thing about standing on the edge of the cliff and deciding to jump.
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For me reading the book [The Exorcist], I had the same questions that everyone else had. How does she jump up and down off the bed? How does her head spin around? How does she throw up?
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If you jump out of a plane without a parachute, does that make you brave? No, I think that makes you stupid. I will never play without the mask again.
