Jake Weber Quotes
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Running back was always my favorite position.
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I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
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No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
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When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
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I'd say I'm quite powerful so I'm not afraid of jumps or acrobatic elements. The hardest part is... get on the beam and stay there on top of it!
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I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung.
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I think the deepest problem is between my parents and me. I just don't know if it will ever be the same.
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I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.
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There's a bizarre prejudice that exists in the New York publishing establishment that any work outside the tri-state area is being done by trained chimpanzees, that geography screens out sensibility. There's an idea that all Los Angeles writing is about the movie industry, that it's vulgar, shallow and banal.
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Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word.
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There is the glamour side of it, which allows you to meet great variety of people with whom you simply can have a good time, but there's also the sad side of it that drags you into a superficial and artificial world.
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I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
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Old houses mended,Cost little less than new before they're ended.
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For 'The Theory of Everything,' I was quite low down on a list of actors for the role, and I got the opportunity as a consequence of people saying no to it. So I have been very, very lucky.
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I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.
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You usually get a script and you tell people what the story's about, and they have no idea what's going on. Whereas with an adaptation, you come into it, and it seems like everyone you talk to has a million opinions on the cast and the way the story should be told.
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When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
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I never wanted anyone's pity.
