Jeff Nichols Quotes
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.
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Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.
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When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests.
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It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from collaborating to solve our common problems than competing for higher rankings.
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Where is Winnie the Pooh without it's illustrations?
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Whenever there is a job to be taken on of a kind calculated to make Humanity shudder, the cry goes up, ‘Let Wooster do it.’
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'It makes me madder than a hornet to be disbelieved,' she explained.
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You don't have to be smart to act - look at the outgoing president of the United States.
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You are my fire the one desire<brb>Believe when I say I want it that way
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By 25, I was a millionaire.
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Yes, yes, no one denies, for example, that you're going to be able to fix the Murray through the Living Murray process without money, no one denies that.
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I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.
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If I could make millions of dollars being a softball player, I would quit acting in a second.
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With longevity comes, 'Nothing is going to kill me; I cannot irreparably damage my career.' Those days are over. The most I can sustain are fender benders.
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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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If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln.
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I feel engaged with young people in Pakistan. But that said, it's still a small minority that reads novels, literary fiction. But it isn't necessarily a small minority of the wealthy elite in the city of Lahore. It can often be and I often do meet at literary festivals students who've ridden a bus 12 hours from a very small town just to hear some of their favorite writers come and speak.
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Making movies is really hard. It's a very complex process, with many, many variables.
