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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More than any other factor, it is the people we have to deal with that determine the quality of our work lives.
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I have been raising money for the past 14 years for diabetes research.
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An orchestra knows during the first two minutes of the first rehearsal whether or not they are going to enjoy the person on the podium.
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I think the big challenge that we've got on education is making sure that from kindergarten or prekindergarten through your 14th or 15th year of school, or 16th year of school, or 20th year of school, that you are actually learning the kinds of skills that make you competitive and productive in a modern, technological economy.
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Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.
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I feel gigantic affection for all of Homeland Security at airports.
