Jeffrey Toobin Quotes
My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world we've long known and the world that will become.
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The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
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I was a normal American nerd.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
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The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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It's up to the audience. It always has been.
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My own career reflects a strange dichotomy between the world we've long known and the world that will become.
