Jeff Giles Quotes
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Being flown to the U.S. to meet Sofia Coppola is really exciting. I was freaking out. I'm a little nervous, as I don't want to muck it up I want to do my best.
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Kevin Hart. He's the man! I like his style. He's short, so I can relate. All the stories he tells are real. I respect that, and he's just a really funny dude - great comedy instincts. To do stand-up on a stage for an hour and tell stories and make people laugh is incredible.
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No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
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The United States is a low-trade - low-tariff country.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
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Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it.
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When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you. Whereas with nonfiction, you have to be as factual as possible but also hopefully - also bring... emotional relevance to the piece.
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In the Holy Book of Islam, Allah says:
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I was a dancer, so for me, if I don't work out for a week or move my body in some sense, I feel weird.
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Growing up in a band is weird - you get stuck hanging on to what it is you think you are. But what I took into Depeche was that punk ethic, that you don't have to be accomplished to be a musician. If you've got ideas, you can do this.
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In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.
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Scott Bradfield writes weird, oblique, unsettling stuff.
