James Veitch Quotes
I went to see my mother the other day, and she told me this story that I'd completely forgotten about how, when we were driving together, she would pull the car over, and by the time she had gotten out of the car, and gone around the car to let me out of the car, I would have already gotten out of the car and pretended to have died.
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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We started with things like locating ski runs or locating a transmission line corridor or locating a new town or doing a coastal zone plan. We ourselves weren't doing the planning work, but we were doing all the mapping work for the landscape architects and planners who would subsequently incorporate the maps into their actual designs.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
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Mulberry Street was the beating heart of the Italian-American experience, but you don't find those gangsters now. I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.
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I was born in New Jersey and lived there until I was about 10, so Jersey is in my roots.
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Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.
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My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.
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'Every drama school in the country turned me down, and so I was lucky to study drama at all, even if it was lowly Birmingham University. But even when I came out with my degree, my mother promptly insisted I go straight to secretarial college to have something to fall back on, just in case – which didn’t exactly fill me with confidence.'
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My favorite thing about motherhood is the outpouring of love that is non-judgmental and beautiful. My daughter just makes me happy, and she motivates me to be a kid again.
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We will never have peace in the world until men everywhere recognize that ends are not cut off from means, because the means represent the ideal in the making, and the end in process, and ultimately you can't reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.
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You can see that all these people who did really great things failed six times or didn't get going until they were much older. I think that's much more instructive and educational.
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I went to see my mother the other day, and she told me this story that I'd completely forgotten about how, when we were driving together, she would pull the car over, and by the time she had gotten out of the car, and gone around the car to let me out of the car, I would have already gotten out of the car and pretended to have died.
