Jane Byrne Quotes
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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Men think a woman should not have an opinion.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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I'm actually not on Twitter.
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Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.
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I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.
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My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
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At Harvard, people like to impart the idea that you are a mover and shaker.
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That's what's inspiring to me - finding someplace where people haven't already seen themselves in a certain light.
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I always say to people, the Eighties were so inventive because people wanted to stand out. By the time we got to the Nineties, everyone wanted to fit in. It was all about having the same pair of trainers and the same pair of jeans. That's fatal. Whereas the Eighties you would never be seen in the same pair of jeans that somebody else was wearing.
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I pledge tonight to be Mayor for all of the people of this city - for one Chicago.
