Jeff Duncan Quotes
Americans are fed up with these mandatory census surveys, and they're asking us to stop the harassment.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.
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What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.
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I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
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Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.
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When something's good, I'm not an over-celebrator.
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I've just sort of jumped into relationships and moved in with people way too soon.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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The worst gig story I have is from a club in Alabama that I think is still up and running, so I won't name the name of the club. We got hired in there to play, and the owner was pretty annoying. He kept coming up to me during the show and asking me to play 'Purple Rain.'
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To me, the main and most exciting thing about photography is to meet people. The picture is the result of what happened between me and them on the set.
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Proper training and federal supervision in state-federal partnerships are essential to both assuring constitutional rights and enforcing our immigration laws. Our Founding Fathers' concept of federalism does not prohibit such cooperation, and we have learned from experience that joint efforts work best.
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Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much, as consigning them to eternal damnation.
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Americans are fed up with these mandatory census surveys, and they're asking us to stop the harassment.
