Jack Gantos Quotes
You gotta face the hand you're dealt with and deal with it, and make your problems be the smallest part of who you are.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.
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There have been presidents with business interests before. But there has never been a fully commercialized global brand as a sitting U.S. president. That is unprecedented.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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My friends I grew up with were so supportive to me. And I'm not the only one who's done well.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
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My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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I think social media is good for promotion, stuff like that, but people are so negative. People are too negative. If you read the comments, it's just too negative.
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For the entirety of my career, I have taken the fights that no one wanted because I fear no man.
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I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
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I'd take the syncopation and play swing, and then read the syncopation lines with my left hand.
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It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.
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If you want to drop off the face of the earth, just be an assistant coach.
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We are all frustrated with computers, all the time... But we also always develop a relationship with computers these days - something my parents never had... there%u2018s always a kind of negotiation, sometimes you are in tune with it and other times you are fighting with it.
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Acting is a way to escape who you are for a short period of time. It doesn't happen all the time , but every now and then, the sensation of being 'other' is very profound. You get this moment where you are no longer yourself. You lose consciousness of the crew or the audience... it's a thrilling moment. And even quite spiritual.
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You gotta face the hand you're dealt with and deal with it, and make your problems be the smallest part of who you are.
