Jan Brett Quotes
When I was little, I would close my eyes and put my finger on a page. Then in my mind, I would go to that place.
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Success demands singleness of purpose.
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Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
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There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
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I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S.
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Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.
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I didn't want to just do a show where my character stood out and other characters were flat or one-to-two-dimensional. I wanted everybody to have meat.
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I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.
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It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
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For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.
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What 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz' and 'World's End' do is smuggle a different movie under the guise of a zombie movie or a cop or alien invasion movie. Even though they all have action and carnage, they are really films about growing up and taking responsibility.
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When I was at 'SNL,' I would constantly get in arguments, 'Why aren't we more political? We're not going after Bush.' Then look what happened - that Sarah Palin season, they were on fire. It was about something.
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By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people. It begins with an entrepreneurial attitude: take an idea and execute on that idea. If it doesn't work, learn why and build on what you've learned.
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Whatever your situation might be, set your mind to whatever you want to do and put a good attitude in it, and I believe that you can succeed. You are not going to get anywhere just sitting on your butt and moping around.
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The first time I ever heard professional actors delivering lines that I wrote was completely surreal and was just a gigantic moment in my life. It was just a little bit mind-blowing and completely strange to have something that had been on my computer being said out loud.
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I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.
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When I was little, I would close my eyes and put my finger on a page. Then in my mind, I would go to that place.
