Jean Genet Quotes
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
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TV is like a school. It is easy to shoot for a film. In movies, you have a definite start and end. You know your character is there for a particular period.
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The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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The world is a global economy. I thought, 'It's a bummer we don't have a unifying currency.' Then I saw Bitcoin had already had a crash and had the resistance to recover. The community was strong enough to push it through again. That's really exciting.
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The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.
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The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
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My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me.
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Talk is cheap; play the game.
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The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.
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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
