Jay Weatherill Quotes
There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.
Quotes to Explore
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How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
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I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
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Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.
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You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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I'm not afraid of change, let's put it that way.
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In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.
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On the day Kazan showed me the completed picture I was so depressed by my performance that I got up and left the screening room.
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Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
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In some ways, writing a novel, especially a novel set in the past and about characters who once lived, is about amassing enough details and arranging them properly in order to offer the reader a verisimilitude that satisfies his or her curiosity about the story at hand.
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Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell.
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There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.
