Jay Parini Quotes
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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When I'm home, I'm Daddy, and everything is completely normal.
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Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
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I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.
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Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
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What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people.
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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My theme song is 'One Tin Soldier' by Coven.
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Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there's a lot of luck involved in that, you're playing a different character.
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If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything.
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Israel's international position is very badly damaged. A country which started off as a symbol of recovery of a people who were greatly persecuted now looks like a country that is persecuting people. And that's very bad.
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I think the must-have power qualities for a female or male power leader are really the ability to focus, to work hard, to be extremely goal oriented and to not let the noise and the nonsense interfere with your mission - what you really feel you want to do with your career and your life.
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If you think that we've overregulated in the environmental space what I can show you is that we have tripled the amount of wind power in this country, increased by tenfold the amount of solar power. We are producing as much oil and gas as we've ever produced.
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I regard Jesus, like the Buddha, as a figure with the power to shape our lives.