Jean-Marie Messier Quotes
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Revenge doesn't stop.
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At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.
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What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way.
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When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
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I complained to my mother about wanting to look less like myself and more like my friends. My mother then gave me a lesson in embracing my differences and loving them despite what others said.
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It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.
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God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.
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When my car broke down in L.A., nobody stopped. They just kept whizzing by.
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Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.
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At one point I had to shove as much food in my body as possible to pack on calories. My trainer wanted me to do six meals a day and not go two hours without eating. If I would cheat on eating one day, I could tell - I'd drop a few pounds.
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Don't ask me who my favourite monster was because I'm sick of saying Tom Baker.
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Death is a monster; death is horrible.
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I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I was way outta my league. I realized this very quickly.
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We said from the very beginning that we're in this for the long haul.
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I have worked with the biggest actors from the beginning. I am hoping God will bless me to work with other big actors.
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I like there to be some interest in every element of my life.
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Where cultural representations do not reach out beyond themselves, there is the danger that they will function as the surrogates for activism, that they will constitute both the beginning and the end of political practice.
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I didn't want to do something typical.
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I gotta tell you, Rickey Medlocke lived in some of the most magical years in this world's history. I lived in the '60s. I lived in the '70s, right into the '80s, and man, it was bad to the bone.
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I have drifted away from thinking about these philanthropic things. And it was only as the wealth got large enough and Melinda and I had talked about the view that wealth wasn't something that would be good to just pass to the children.
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If I can find the right idea, I can get out of the way and do a good story.
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I am the most un-French Frenchman you will ever meet.
