Jeffrey Donovan Quotes
We had to make ends meet. My parents were divorced, so my father wasn't really in my life. We grew up like most kids, just wanting things.
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.
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As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As then baptism has been given us by the Savior, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, so, in accordance with our baptism, we make the confession of the creed, and our doxology in accordance with our creed.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.
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I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.
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I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.
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Life is an incurable disease.
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My baby will be growing up in Liverpool, so we have another Scouser.
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My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.
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It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
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I got into the Shanghai Drama Institute because my parents, like all parents, want their children to have good grades and to go to a good college. I became a college student because of them.
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I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.
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Like all Jews, I was probably at a Chinese restaurant!
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There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.
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I thought we had opposite visions of electronic music. Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk had a very robotic, mechanical approach. I had a more impressionist vision - a Ravel/Debussy approach.
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We had to make ends meet. My parents were divorced, so my father wasn't really in my life. We grew up like most kids, just wanting things.
