Jeff Lindsay Quotes
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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I owe the public a good performance, the best I can give. We really bust our chops on 'CHiPs' but when I go home and get a weekend off, I want to spend it quietly, with my lady.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice.
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I studied mass media and brand management and was looking to do an MBA. When an acting offer came by, I thought I'll do one film so that it would look good on my CV. Films happened one after another, in different industries. I'm so glad things turned out the way they did.
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The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.
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In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
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For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.
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A lot of people put pressure on me, but I don't think I feel that type of pressure. It is more of a good thing that people are trying to do that.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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When I walked out on the mound, I felt enclosed. You see, I'd been used to playing on pastures, where when somebody hit a ball you had to stop it from rolling. Well, this field had fences around it.
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Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
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I'm a crier. I always cry. I cry at the dumbest things, too. This is why I sort of steer clear of movies and films that I know are going to be depressing. I don't care how many awards they've won - I know they're good. I don't need to watch them, because I don't want to be depressed, and I don't want to cry.
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When you are starting to run an online business, you need to narrow down a niche market and be able to stick with it until you have a good profit coming in. This can take a while, so you need to have a great deal of patience to make sure that your business is moving in the right direction.
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
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I don't know David Cameron very well. I like him. I think you can judge a book by its cover - whoever said you can't is wrong - that's the whole point of nature giving us intuition, instinct and so on. I think the cover is pretty good.
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So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.
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Traditionally I'm not a very good secret-keeper.
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For us, it is very important all the time that our core business is really good but that we don't stop moving.
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I used to be opposed to collaboration, and that's probably why the music in the past wasn't as good. Writing with other people, especially the great writers that I've had the privilege to write with, it activates something in your mind that you wouldn't use alone.
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I've never been - I don't think I'm, like, a great A&R by any means. I don't even know production lingo, in all honesty.
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We need to do a better job of loving each other beyond race, beyond belief, beyond our difference.
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I've got lots of friends who would just think, 'Horror movies - they're crap, aren't they?' I think there's a cultural snobbery more than an institutional one.
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'Dexter' has been very, very good to me. I would rather stop doing it than cheapen it.
