Jamie Redknapp Quotes
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	That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.   
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	I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.   
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	The privileged classes today are bothered about petrol and diesel prices while the poor can't afford two meals a day. I am a very small person, but I want us to think beyond personal and regional interests.   
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	The crazy thing about the dab is like - dance moves, once you create them, they last forever.   
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	When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.   
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	I love action movies.   
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	I think it was absolutely a mistake for President Obama and Harry Reid to force a government shutdown.   
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	Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.   
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	I'm very unorganized.   
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	I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath.   
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	Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.   
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	I just like the insides of things and finding ways into microscopic worlds. There's also an element of control, taking things apart and putting them back together. It's a very tedious task. You can be alone and create a world for yourself.   
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	A friend of mine at the American Enterprise Institute says there are two parties: the silly party and the stupid party. I'm too old for the silly party, so I had to join the stupid party.   
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	There were a few youthful fishing trips, but I never enjoyed the experiences, partly because I didn't like hurting the bait.   
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	And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them.   
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	I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.   
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	Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If you're writing and you don't like how your character looks or talks, you just fix it. But in a movie, if there's something you don't like, that's tough.   
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	I never went to school for acting; it just comes to me. I never practice. I read the script, I'll memorize it. I don't even practice the acting. I'll just do it the day, and it will just come to me.   
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	Business has to be fun. For too many people, it's 'just a job.'   
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	Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear   
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	Less is more. I would notice that when I did my makeup, I was putting on more makeup than they did on me at shoots. A little goes a long way, so I definitely learned how to wear less.   
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	I'm going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I'm able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.   
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	But there's no point in looking back and saying I was unlucky.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					