Jan Schakowsky Quotes
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Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.
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Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.
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I feel like a lot of directing is casting.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
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I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.
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When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.
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I do not have any pets. We travel too much.
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I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I'm much more of a girl that's a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.
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For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty? What does it mean to be insane - crazy?
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I kind of liked the idea of filming musicians. I could like a musician and know, at the same time, maybe nobody else maybe liked them much or appreciated them.
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I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
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Intelligent, successful, attractive people can be intimidating. They force us to hold a mirror to ourselves; we can be disappointed, jealous or inspired toward personal growth.
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I never had planned for my life and my career.
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I never have to this day, because my money is the money I earn.
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When I was 17 I sent a picture up to an agency, and within a week I was in The Sun five days in a row.
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We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.
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All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.
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They flat their fifths, we drink ours.
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I support negotiating authority to lower prescription drug prices.
