Jay Parini Quotes

My father was a Baptist preacher, and he used to read the King James Bible to me every single morning. He made me memorize it and repeat verses at night before I went to sleep.

Jay Parini

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• From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.

  

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• I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.

  

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• I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

  

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• If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.

  

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• The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.

  

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• I had people at Perrysburg High School in my life in Perrysburg who believed in me and told me I could do anything I wanted too, and I foolishly believed them.

  

  Sam Jaeger
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• My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.

  

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• The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.

  

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• Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

  

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• I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.

  

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• I've directed enough in the theatre and a couple of films to know that - to feel fairly secure that if I find a story that I really like I can probably get it done somewhat.

  

  Gary Sinise
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• My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.

  

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• I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.

  

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• I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.

  

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• Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

  

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• For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.

  

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• I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set.

  

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• Dorothy looked, and gave a little cry of fright. There, indeed, just under the corner of the great beam the house rested on, two feet were sticking out, shod in silver shoes with pointed toes.

  

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• Murder has foreseeable consequences. When it happens, it is always to distinct individuals, and after it happens, other victims are left behind.

  

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• My drawings have been described as pre-intentionalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.

  

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• I was a new devotee of Eastern mysticism and even though I did not join that particular group, I could well have done. They seemed a bit extreme but I regarded myself as not quite ready.

  

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• My father was a Baptist preacher, and he used to read the King James Bible to me every single morning. He made me memorize it and repeat verses at night before I went to sleep.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Father
  • Night
  • Single