Jeff Shaara Quotes
World will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion…
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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To be honest, you don't get the full picture when you read a script.
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We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.
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We live in America. We live in a free society where we are able to make choices. It's about giving individuals freedoms and holding them accountable.
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Governor Jan Brewer and the Arizona legislature have created an environment in Arizona where performing is no longer a neutral act. They have created an environment where they can convert the normal commercial interaction between artists and their fans into the means to apply this racist law.
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Well, it was a church person in the early days, Mahalia Jackson. And Rosetta Tharpe. These spiritual, very strong voices. I only knew that they were figures in the black race, recognizable and respected. But I must admit, I've always covered the songs of males. I haven't followed up on women or listened to that much women's music.
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To be honest, I don't know how comedy works.
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Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.
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I've stopped reading fiction. I don't read it at all. I read other things: history, biography. I don't have the same interest in fiction that I once did.
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There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.
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I really like singing. I believe that if I wasn't a good singer, I would have been tossed out of school.
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If we give something positive to others, it will return to us. If we give negative, that negativity will be returned.
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Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
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I don't do any editing while we're making the movie. I sit down and watch it all with my editor, we make longhand notes on pads, and then we begin our work.
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It is hard to know how many people do, but given that the people are so docile towards the rulers, nowadays, very few Americans show the passion for freedom that our forefathers had.
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Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew.
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Tender Mercies is a very low-budget film, but it was a huge budget compared to anything I had done in Australia. My fee for Tender Mercies was something like five times all of my Australian films combined.
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I think it should be evident by now, but I'm as lost as anyone.
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When you have a novel set in a fictional history, you still should get your history right.
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There's a really positive side of being an introvert - you really pick up on things a lot more than your extroverted counterparts.
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Ultimately, we're incredibly resilient creatures. People really do get on with the business of living.
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World will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion…
