Jeff Giles Quotes
By now, we all know that Hollywood producers always chase after the same properties, that the sharks circle simply because the other sharks are circling.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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To start with, pharma was an industry based on innovation, drug discovery.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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People in Texas wear cowboy hats; they're good at keeping the sun off your neck and face.
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I think the premise of somebody trying to recreate a night from their teenage years stuck with me as something potentially very tragically comic.
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I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.
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I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I think that's why people are doing too many revivals, that's why there's a plethora of rock musicals. There's room for everything, but not room for too much of anything.
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Some felt as if 'Charlie Hebdo' was obsessed with its 'Screw Allah' stance. It's a sort of provocation that caused a lot of debates.
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The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.
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When I'm working, I always read stuff that's as far away from what I'm working on as possible, so I'll read American crime fiction at bedtime, or Emily Dickinson.
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I... now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that's out of shape and behind the times.
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You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
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The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing.
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Sometimes fashion designers will be like, 'This is what's hot right now, and you will be cool if you wear this,' but sometimes it's too expensive or doesn't look good on me or isn't who I am, and I don't need to just think that what you're saying is what's cool if I have my own identity.
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Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.
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Bob Hope: Let's not do any jokes we didn't plan on, eh.
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Who was Jesus anyway? After twenty centuries, there is not much anyone can agree on. The four canonical gospels don't measure up to modern standards of biographical writing, and - outside of this material - there is precious little contemporary evidence, apart from a few glancing mentions of Jesus or the movement centered on him.
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One nice thing about the Third World, you don't have to fasten your seat belt. (Or stop smoking. Or cut down on saturated fats.) It takes a lot off your mind when average life expectancy is forty-five minutes.
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By now, we all know that Hollywood producers always chase after the same properties, that the sharks circle simply because the other sharks are circling.
