Jane Leavy Quotes
In 1927, my father descended the heights and took his place as the newly appointed water boy for his beloved New York football Giants.
Quotes to Explore
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.
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We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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The way you wield your power is about using it to afford you opportunities that you wouldn't otherwise have. So I'm very creatively ambitious, and I just hope people notice it; that's all I want.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.
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I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
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I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.
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You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
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I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.
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To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
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I can't judge myself by 'God Only Knows.' No one writes songs as good as that.
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I'd like to run a professional football team. I'd love to run the USTA, be the sports editor of the 'New York Times.'
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I just want to get to the level where I can say that that's my level, just try to play well, get up there.
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I got married, which opened me up to a whole new way of feeling about life, which in turn reflected on the way I do my art, you know.
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In 1927, my father descended the heights and took his place as the newly appointed water boy for his beloved New York football Giants.
