Jason Aaron Quotes
'Original Sin' is, for me, a murder mystery with a huge cast that plays out on a grand stage.
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I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.
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We have four beautiful children and some wonderful memories.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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I am musical and I enjoy theatre, but I never wanted to just do theatre. I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.
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But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.
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It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead.
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A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
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It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
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Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There aren't a whole lot of manuals for that.
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Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in this country that supposedly you can't sit down and have dinner and enjoy another person's company if you don't have the same beliefs. It's ridiculous.
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It was interesting to shoot history as it happens, without anyone demanding a huge story.
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Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.
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I'm proud of my curves, my daughter, as well as the harsh past that helped shape me into the strong woman I am today.
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Reaganomics: You start a business in your parents' garage. Obamanomics: You move into your parents' garage.
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The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!
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He never went very far astray in his official business, because he always obeyed the clerks and followed precedents.
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The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.
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Form and content must never apologize for each other.
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The only reason I've been so critical of hip-hop is because I've always been aware of the effect that it has, and the reflection that it gives of the African-American community.
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'Original Sin' is, for me, a murder mystery with a huge cast that plays out on a grand stage.
