Jay Rockefeller Quotes
The president's economic plan doesn't do enough to create new jobs and that has to be a national priority. While there are some signs the economy is improving, it is not translating into jobs.
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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I didn't want to just do a show where my character stood out and other characters were flat or one-to-two-dimensional. I wanted everybody to have meat.
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In the film industry, you are fictitious, just like the characters you play. It has a lot do with a perception about you, and not necessarily you. You are successful because people like that image of you on screen.
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Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
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The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
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A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
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I'm one of the regulars. I play this doctor, Dr. Andrew Brown, going through some marriage problems.
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The climax is the place where the opposing forces in your story finally clash. This is true whether those opposing forces are two armies or two values inside a character's soul.
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My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
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I still believe in love. I believe in marriage.
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What I really want is a commercial hit. If you're in a hit, you're suddenly a star, whether you acted well or not.
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My telephone manners were, well, offensive to some. As I lugged my cell around, yammering away, I noticed cold stares from passersby who viewed me as a kind of techno-terrorist, or at least incredibly rude.
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I don't want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.
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I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'
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Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you're talking about an overwhelming win. I don't think by any measurement the 2004 election was an overwhelming win.
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I had an uncle who took me to the ring in Medellin when I was 15 years old. In school, we had someone who taught us how to bullfight.
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Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
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I'd like to get back to my family and friends - believe it or not, I do have some real friends.
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People are so ready to cut you down if you take a risk and leave your comfort zone.
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The president's economic plan doesn't do enough to create new jobs and that has to be a national priority. While there are some signs the economy is improving, it is not translating into jobs.
