Jay Parini Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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We do all the appropriating. They do not do any of it down at the White House. They send a budget up here, and we don't have to pay any attention it to at all. We do what we want to do.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact.
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All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.
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The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.
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When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.
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Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.
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I've always fought as a heavyweight, and I didn't see any reason to fight at a lighter weight.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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Let's face it, us '60s folks had pretty high expectations.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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David Fincher's work has all been incredibly well-received on Netflix, and Kevin Spacey's films have all worked on Netflix.
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'Doctor Who' has a certain amount of showbiz attached to it.
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If I have to, I will. I'll do whatever the law (requires) me to do, but other than that, it's a waste of my time.
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I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
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I like the South: Southern literature and that relationship between grotesqueness and living below the Mason-Dixon line. But I also understand that people view it as a limitation - as an actor and as a person - perceptions that are really wrong: that you are ignorant and possibly illiterate, or that it's cute.
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It's an incredible privilege for an actor to look into the camera. It's like looking right into the heart of the film, and you can't take that lightly.
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The idea that owning a gun in America was an individual right only dates to the 1980s.
