Jake Pavelka Quotes
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When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
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If I'm not doing something or working on something, I literally just sit in the room and think, which I don't think is productive. I won't go outside for days.
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I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.
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I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30.
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Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.
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I'm not into the gym. I prefer dancing or tennis.
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I am happy in Paris.
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I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable.
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All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.
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I haven't thought about writing so much as potentially producing and finding my own projects to get into production. I want to be able to buy the rights to a story that I have read or a book that I have read.
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I adored my father.
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I don't have any regrets about not having had children. What's the point? It's just something else to beat yourself up over.
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It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in that Woody Allen character some of the time - he has these idiosyncrasies that are really charming and funny.
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I've seen a lot of great players that couldn't get to the top because of horses, and I've seen a lot of normal players that got higher and higher because of horses.
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You don’t have to know a philosopher’s every syllable to know why he rubs you the wrong way. You may know it best after a few of his sentences, and les and less well after that. The important thing is to see his web and move away before you tear it.
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They might not get in as early as they thought they would. I think that the numbers are tainted. You just don't hit 70 home runs and have guys hit it in back-to-back seasons. It opens your eyes that there's something wrong here.
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The novel space is a pure space. I'm nobody once I go into that room. I'm not gay, I'm not bald, I'm not Irish. I'm not anybody. I'm nobody. I'm the guy telling the story, and the only person that matters is the person reading that story, the target. It's to get that person to feel what I'm trying to dramatize.
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Tax reform and expanded trade are going to be so important to the economy of Illinois, particularly the 11th Congressional District, which is a major manufacturing and a major agricultural district.
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Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.
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I don't sing. I do everybody a favor and I don't sing.
