Jake Lloyd Quotes
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We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.
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Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
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If you look at the history of large financial institutions, most of them have succeeded because of a deep presence in their home market.
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In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.
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I got a job as soon as I could - 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a pharmacy in England. I just remember loving the feeling of going out and buying my own clothes! I'd go bargain-hunting and get secondhand vintage stuff.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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I mean, comedy's hard. If you go back and look at the first season of 'Seinfeld,' it's a work in progress and that's what happens. It just takes time for people to figure each other out, and figure out timing, and to develop creatively with the writers.
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And those Texas sunsets... I work a lot in Africa: Texas and Africa have the best sunsets on the planet, that I've ever seen.
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My work is not about 'form follows function,' but 'form follows beauty' or, even better, 'form follows feminine.'
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I'm not in control of my fate, and that's a good thing.
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So much tension around here in New York. They want to fine you for every little thing you do.
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I seem to be landing a lot of roles with animal interactions, which is amazing.
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It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.
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A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.
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I want to be like Johnny Bach or Pete Carril or Tex.
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The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
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No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.
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Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.
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As I've gotten older, I've gotten simpler - my level of aspiration has actually gone down and down. But my level of impact has gone up and up.
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There was a time, after I earned my graduate degree and before I sold my first novel, when it looked like I might have to get an office job.
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The smaller players need to consolidate, but it will take time to deliver those synergies to the market
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The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.
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I was in detention a lot.
