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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To start with, pharma was an industry based on innovation, drug discovery.
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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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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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Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!
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Now I see other kids and their parents, and I compare them to my dad. Our dad was a really normal father when he was with us. We would get grounded if we did something bad. He would ground us. He wouldn't call it grounding; he'd just say, 'You're on punishment.' Sometimes we'd be on punishment a lot.
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Violence has been a part of films since the beginning of time. It's been a form of entertainment.
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Voting third-party in 2016 meant choosing The Green Party's Jill Stein, the Libertarian Party's Gary Johnson, or Independent Candidate Evan McMullion.
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The too-big-to-fail reform project is massive in scope. In my view, it holds real promise. But the project will take years to complete. Success is not assured.
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There was a time in the marriage when I could no longer look at myself in a mirror, couldn't feel I was a nice person. A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.
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I think every parent takes more pleasure in seeing their child succeed than seeing themselves succeed.
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The basic idea that if you increase government spending or you cut people's taxes that stimulates the economy and lowers the unemployment rate, is a very widely accepted idea. It's in every economics textbook, that's what we teach our undergraduates, and I certainly try to teach them the truth.
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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.
