Jeffrey Jones Quotes
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I am a proud Zionist. I can tell you about every blossom that grows in this land. I know the history and the Bible.
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I put everything I think is sexy into my shoes.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.
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When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some other force making me paint. I - as I wrote in my novel 'My Name is Red' - watch with amazement what my hand is doing on the paper, what kind of line, what kind of strange, beautiful thing it's doing in spite of my will, so to speak.
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I live with my family on the top of a hill in the country, and during the days, my house is quiet, save for the occasional excitement of the FedEx truck heading up the driveway. I write.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.
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I have to satisfy my audience.
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Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.
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I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
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But Paul, in his preaching of the Gospel, is a debtor to deliver the word not to Barbarians only, but also to Greeks, and not only to the unwise, who would easily agree with him, but also to the wise.
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I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.
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For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.
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I say things other people wish they could say. I don't pick on people - I empower them.
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I always sang in English. It's just that nobody heard me.
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I am a lover. And with my kids I am even softer. I realize with my son, I have to sometimes be tough, especially now when he's pushing boundaries. With my daughter, I can get a little stern with her and she pretty much will listen.
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When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.
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I don't love the theatre. I'm just not one of them.
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This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays.
