Jeff Nichols Quotes
I first read 'Tom Sawyer' when I was in 8th grade, 13 years old. I realised since that Mark Twain just bottled what it felt like to be a child.
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The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.
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Kennedy had made a mess in Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. He had to do something to look good. The Apollo program of going to the Moon was quite a goal.
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.
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I never like to get political, but when you have the ability, through your media, to influence a large mass of people, I would want to be a part of the evolving cycle of progress vs. keeping things the way that they are.
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I can only try to keep the characters interesting; it's up to the readers to decide whether they're still relevant.
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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.
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Trying to be smarter, work smarter, and just take care of my body more and more.
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All the music that I play today, I actually heard either at home or in my neighborhood when I was growing up in the '40s and '50s.
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I've found that when everyone rallies behind a cause, and when they learn their effort can contribute something bigger, they get engaged.
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Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.
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The songs from your childhood, when you hear them you get chills all over.
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I'm a perfectionist. I like to get it right. I like to get it good. And you know, writing songs is not - it's not the kind of thing that you can count on every day. You never know what's going to come or if it's going to come. So you - you know, it's an uncertain kind of a thing.
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We have the First Amendment to rely on whenever an elected official tries to impinge on our rights to speak.
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If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?
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I don't think we really think about where we get our equality from. There is a sense of feminism and women become passe, in my opinion.
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I don't want to be in the film business. I'm not even sure it's a business.
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The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves.
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How else learn the real, if not by inventing what might lie outside it?
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I don't expect anybody to know who I am.
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They have ears but hear not.
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I first read 'Tom Sawyer' when I was in 8th grade, 13 years old. I realised since that Mark Twain just bottled what it felt like to be a child.
