Jed S. Rakoff Quotes
I was always attracted to taking a novel position, but one grounded in the materials I'd been given, not made up out of whole cloth.
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When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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Broadway is really my life.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.
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When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
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While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many of our fellow countrymen have made to defend our country and protect our freedoms.
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I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
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My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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Our country has often stood like a solid rock in the face of common danger, and there is a deep underlying unity which runs like a golden thread through all our seeming diversity.
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A storytelling device teaches. I hate to say it that way, because kids tune out. I don't teach on purpose, but I'm glad that it happens sometimes.
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I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.
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Politics itself is not sacred any more.
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My father and I are friends and my mother and I don't speak. It's a bummer. I miss her.
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I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.
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I used to publish these stories in 32-page comics, and I would either do short stories or break the long ones up into chunks so there would be some variety inside the comic. But since then, people have been doing more and more long, standalone works, and the term 'graphic novel' has sort of become the codified term now.
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I don't even own a bike.
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I was always attracted to taking a novel position, but one grounded in the materials I'd been given, not made up out of whole cloth.
