Jeff Perry Quotes
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I never said I don't like gay people.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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I tend to lean toward romance, characters, and relationships when I write, so I have to add to the setting elements and world-building when I revise.
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Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else has; or at least very few, if any... I can throw rays from every quarter of the universe into one vast focus.
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Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.
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I love the Spider-Man story. I watched the cartoon on TV when I was a kid, and my brother wore his Spider-Man pyjamas everywhere.
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War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.
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In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely.
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My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college.
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Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.
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Things like Abu Ghraib and even Guantanamo are not new things: there are many precedents.
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I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career.
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During 'Chicago Hope,' I never let directors talk to me, because I was so spoiled. I started off with people like Milos Forman, Sidney Lumet, James Lapine, unbelievably gifted people. So there I was, saying, 'Don't talk to me, I don't want your opinion.' I behaved abominably.
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Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
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I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.
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If someone looks genuinely interested and asks me a deeply personal question, I'll give the answer. I'm too open.
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The fear was all he had left, but even that was something-he was afraid, so he must be alive! There was darkness, but there was Simon, too! There were not one and the same. Not yet. Not quite...
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You have frightened and daunted me. I will stop stealing at once.
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It was a downriver 10-K in the mouth of the Amazon. I won in an hour and 20 minutes. It has to be one of the fastest times ever swum. The race director said there were no piranhas in that part of the Amazon. The water was too dirty.
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Every boy in a free country ought to be instructed in boxing, wrestling, and the use of weapons. Every young man ought to be drilled. Every householder ought, at least, to have a right to own a rifle, and should know how to make cartridges.
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My goal is to be able to provide for myself and not have to worry about the daily expenses. I do want to be able to benefit from my work and make a good living, but I love it so much that I would do it for free.
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I feel gigantic affection for all of Homeland Security at airports.
