Jamey Sheridan Quotes
I worked at the New York Civil Liberties Union as a starving actor in the early '80s. I was in love with what they were doing.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.
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The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.
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I'm not really a food connoisseur.
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I normally don't listen to my instincts because I'm so full of doubt.
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I would love to do something with Coldplay.
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The waste basket is the writer's best friend.
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First off, it's wonderful how much people are supporting me and felt I should have stayed in the competition.
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I try to get as close as I can to cleaning out my inbox every night.
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Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
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Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?
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Lord Caversham: No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.Lord Goring: Quite so. And we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it, do we, father?
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Vain? Let it be so! Nature was her teacher,What if a lovely and unsistered creatureLoved her own harmless gift of pleasing feature.
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The specter of single-issue religious groups is growing over our land. … One of the great strengths of our political system always has been our tendency to keep religious issues in the background. By maintaining the separation of church and state, the United States has avoided the intolerance which has so divided the rest of the world with religious wars.
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Why do we resist giving help to homeless men? In part because we don’t understand how our pressure on men to support families often forces men to take transient jobs that are but a step away from homelessness (the death-of-a-salesman jobs, the migrant worker jobs…) and in part because we respond differently to men who fail than women who fail.
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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
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The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: the embryo becomes a baby, the bud becomes a blossom, the acorn becomes an oak tree. Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression.
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There was never any career plan. When 'Red Dwarf' started I thought we were doing a curious little sitcom on BBC2, I didn't think I was becoming an actor. I didn't see that 21 years later I'd still be talking about it, let alone filming a new one. For me everything's always been an accident.
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Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.
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I worked at the New York Civil Liberties Union as a starving actor in the early '80s. I was in love with what they were doing.
