Jay London Quotes
I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear explosions. He said don't worry it's not the end of the world.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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Fundamentally, I do agree, certainly, people must be allowed to express their own opinions freely. Freedom is part of the essential rights of all nations.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.
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My relationship with Salman Khan is too personal to talk about. I take my work like any other regular job, and what I do in my personal life is no one's business. I'd rather let my work do all the talking.
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There remain times when one can only endure. One lives on, one doesn't die, and the only thing that one can do, is to fill one's mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn't bring immediate peace, but it brings the dawn nearer.
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Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She's not a symbol.
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I am sensual and very physical. I'm very erotic. But my sexuality exists on a sort of a fantasy level.
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When you work with a DeNiro or Hoffman, they love what they do so much that there's never any competitive vibe. It's more about how do we do this thing together.
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I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear explosions. He said don't worry it's not the end of the world.
