Jane Howard Quotes
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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Running back was always my favorite position.
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
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Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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When people ask me what I miss most about the game, it's being in the locker room and getting to know the guys. Back in those days, we had roommates. We had to talk basketball and that was a great way to understand the game itself and form those lasting relationships.
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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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Tech is all about building human connections.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible - the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.
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Stuart Murdoch is a really special human being - really creative, but also really kind and gentle.
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On a lot of shows that I've done, we had the same directors, which was cool. But then, it's also great to do shows where the director changes every week, because you get to see all these different personalities and see what you like dealing with better, as an actor.
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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
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Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.
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I didn't even have that many close LGBT friends or anything like that, but I suppose it was growing up and becoming aware of how you are in a cultural landscape that is blatantly homophobic... you turn around and say, 'Why did I grow up in a homophobic place? Why did I grow up in a misogynistic place?'
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Be yourself. Forget about whether you are male or female and just work hard to become a director who truly knows her craft and the direction she wants the film to go. People respect a director for her work regardless of her gender.
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She was beautiful and terrifying, savage and pure.
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
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Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to be a thing that has not gotten through to them. It’s my impression that you could get rid of half of most of these books. These people are not good enough to be this long, but they’re apparently also not good enough to be shorter.
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She was a patron saint of the peripheral.
