Jamie Johnson Quotes
I think you can do a lot with fiction, and in some cases you can say even more in fiction than you can in straight-up documentary journalism.
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Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
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I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school. Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.
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We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies.
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I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things - the music forces you into a different mood and perspective whilst the visual stuff can engage you in a more direct cognitive manner.
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Latin people love to dance. Nothing is more powerful than a Latin man doing 'Mambo Number 5' by himself.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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Whatever I have done so far has led me to 'Kaabil.' It is a big opportunity for me to establish myself more commercially. It is a huge platform.
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I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
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When I was a kid, I used to try and hit every ball out of the ground. After playing one-day cricket and Test cricket, I never thought I'd get a chance to play like that again, ever. Twenty20 has given me the opportunity of playing like a kid again. I can just feel free and go out there and hit.
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It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.
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For Conor McGregor, I'm coming out of retirement just to fight Conor McGregor.
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Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.
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I don't like people telling me what to do. I'm very independent.
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I think you can do a lot with fiction, and in some cases you can say even more in fiction than you can in straight-up documentary journalism.
