Jay London Quotes
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My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.'
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Air warfare is a shot through the brain, not a hacking to pieces of the enemy's body.
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I'm either enjoying myself or I'm not. And if I'm not enjoying myself, something's gone terribly wrong.
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I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.
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With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.
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The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
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Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.
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When I taught, all my best students were women.
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Fashion is so mass-produced now; I hope there will come a refocus on how people see couture. And I would also hope for a new focus on the craft.
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If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.
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We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
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I like statement flats that can take you from day to night.
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The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.
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When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.
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When you first get fame, you're so insecure that you just become a ding dong.
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The Philippines is in a strategic position. It is both East and West, right and left, rich and poor. We are neither here nor there.
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The engaged mind stays sharp and retains tremendous capacity.
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People say they have to express their emotions. I’m sick of that. Photography doesn’t teach you how to express your emotions; it teaches you how to see.
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None of what’s happened to me and to my family has shaken what I know to be correct and true about science and medicine, and my experiences.
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I played softball and basketball growing up. I really wanted to play football but both parents said no. I was mad for a second, then got over it. Now, just because I'm tall doesn't mean I can play basketball. I was waaaaay better at swinging a bat.
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A disk unbeknownst to the director can go to the producer in another city or in another office and that producer can edit behind the director's back much easier than in the old days. Since these dailies are now put on videotape, more kinds of people have access to dailies.
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The failures and successes are necessary for learning.
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Methods of clerical work in twentieth-century France would not have been tolerated in America in the earliest Colonial days, and surely not before then by the Indians.
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I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?
