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.

  

  Viet D. Dinh
  • Law
  • Lawyer
  • Questions

• We have four beautiful children and some wonderful memories.

  

  Damon Wayans
  • Children
  • Beautiful
  • Memories

• 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.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Distance

• Wherever I go in the world, I'm treated like royalty.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • World
  • Go
  • Royalty

• 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.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Great
  • Society
  • Justice

• When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Purpose
  • Mad
  • Partner

• 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.

  

  Sabrina Lloyd
  • Up
  • Music
  • Love

• 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.

  

  Eddie Bracken
  • Work
  • Stage
  • Excitement

• 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.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Time
  • Writing
  • True

• A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Family
  • Own
  • Superstitions

• 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.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Men
  • History
  • Achieving

• Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There aren't a whole lot of manuals for that.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Job
  • Kind
  • Child

• 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.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Different
  • Country
  • Friends

• It was interesting to shoot history as it happens, without anyone demanding a huge story.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • History
  • Interesting
  • Story

• Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Art
  • House
  • Coffee

• 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.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Today
  • Past
  • Strong

• Reaganomics: You start a business in your parents' garage. Obamanomics: You move into your parents' garage.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Business
  • Parents

• 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!

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • God
  • Hand
  • Door

• I felt that America's duty was not to try to do everything itself, but to foster a sense of commitment that would bring out the best in every country.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Country
  • America
  • Commitment

• Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. Others have called this deepest quality confidence, and I have referred to trust as the earliest positive psychosocial attitude, but if life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

  

  Erik Erikson
  • Wounded
  • Inherent
  • Indispensable

• She is one of God's women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.

  

  Bram Stoker
  • Light
  • Heaven
  • Fashioned

• In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Young

• Women were victims. Their husbands could beat them up when they wanted to. They couldn't work. They could be maimed and killed by their husbands.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Up
  • Work
  • Women

• 'Original Sin' is, for me, a murder mystery with a huge cast that plays out on a grand stage.

  

  Jason Aaron