Jef I. Richards Quotes
Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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The most violent and troubling stories become part of our national consciousness about foster care.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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I felt within myself that I needed to change what I was doing. I needed a new stimuli. So the interest from Manchester United was a perfect fit.
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When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
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One thing a lot of people don't know about Fun. was that the three of us all came from 10 years of touring with our own projects. That's how we met, actually.
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If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.
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When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.
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How does one get bored of life?
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Since becoming a pop star, I've experimented a lot more. I've gotten more creative with what I wear. My stylist is a bit more adventurous than I would normally be, but it's really worked, and the colours really work together. I think everyone should be a bit more confident: if it's a summer's day, wear some bright colours.
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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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I hate to wait. When I want something, I want it now.
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I have three libraries. As a gift, a friend alphabetized and organized my main library of novels, history books, and nonfiction. Then I have a photo-book collection. Then there's this nearly whole room of my childhood books. I've also got cookbooks and a big collection of horse-related books.
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There's more to life than football, right?
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But did I think it would last more than 13 episodes at the time? No, I didn't think that. I never know.
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In England a man is presoomed to be innocent till he's proved guilty an' they take it f 'r granted he's guilty. In this counthry a man is presoomed to be guilty ontil he's proved guilty an' afther that he's presoomed to be innocent.
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Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.
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Actors don't have to be linked in real life for the chemistry to be translated on screen.
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My dean gave me permission to model during my work semester, even though I was in the Criminal Justice Department. I don't know whether I'd ever have become a model if he hadn't let me do that.
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While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.
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Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.
