Jami Gertz Quotes
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I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.
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Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!
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I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.
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I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies.
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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas.
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Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.
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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
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And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.
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Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know they're major, even if we don't always realise it at the time. Farming created cities. Writing, followed eventually by printing, vastly increased the preservation and transmission of cultural information across time and space.
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I love fashion - I really feel it's where I belong.
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When I was back to 100 per cent fitness, I was able to show what I was capable of. I like to think I will bring a freshness into the Euros, and now that I am captain, I am going to do my best to take responsibility.
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My family is a middle-class family. When I grew up and learned how much it actually cost for us to play hockey, I could not believe that my parents let us play as long as they did.
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Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.
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I love working! I'm a huge fan of TV and will be happy as long as I'm getting to be creative.
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I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a point where it's almost meaningless.
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Too late! The two saddest words in any tongue.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.
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Whatever it is, / I cannot understand it, / although gratitude / stubbornly overcomes me / until I'm reduced to tears.
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Well yes, my son was bar mitzvahed last April, after I made this film.
