Jean Paul Quotes
I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.
Quotes to Explore
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It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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I work with CEOs and their executive teams... and very few of these people are really indifferent about their employees or their customers.
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Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.
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If I'm going to get hit, why let the guy who's going to hit me get the easiest and best shot? I explode into the guy who's trying to tackle me.
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If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.
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Basically, I grew up watching Carter girls on stage, watching my grandmother, my mom and my aunts perform. They used to say, 'Okay, Carter girls, you're on!'
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I am running for my Senate district in 2014 and looking forward hopefully to earning the confidence of my community once again and being reelected for that seat.
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I'm the kind of person who, if I see a shooting star, I wouldn't stay there and watch it. I'd run to my friends and tell them because I would want everyone to see it too.
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'We are all acquaintances now'. It goes beyond our personal junk circumstances; a brilliant metaphor for our times.
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Lovers lie around in itBroken glass is found in itGrassI like that stuff
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I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It's not the environment, it's not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It's what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it.
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George Hearn taught me that you learn that there are roles that are Tony roles and roles that are not.
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Actually, I was more or less determined to be a theoretical physicist at the age of thirteen.
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I went to Brooklyn College as an education major. It was a big deal in the family, but really, I was living for Mom and Dad.
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I'm not a method actor, but I'm affected by the life I share my life with during shooting. It's always a very strange and special period for me.
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My first lip balms were Bonne Bell Lip Smackers, which, correct me if I'm wrong, sometimes had little bracelets attached to the caps-meaning your lip balm could idly dangle from your wrist like a charm bracelet when not in use, not unlike some iPhone accessories.
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A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes that's great, but not everybody is Gabriel Garcia Marquez or James Joyce. A lot of people like to pretend that they are, and they wind up not giving people a good read or enlightening them.
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Fine art is the only teacher except torture.
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Do not carry with you your mistakes. Do not carry your cares. Travel on alone. Like an elephant in the forest.
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Certainly, I'm excited by epic subjects. It doesn't particularly frighten me.
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I knew deep down that I was going to have my little girl, even if I had to raise her on my own, which is what I did.
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I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.
