Jennifer Haigh Quotes
I believed, after writing 'Mrs. Kimble,' that I knew how to write a novel. I quickly discovered that I only knew how to write that novel. 'Baker Towers' was a different beast entirely; and I felt as though I had to learn to write all over again.
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I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Internet for a dude is on zero hot girls' agendas. So they're definitely not coming after you.
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
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It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.
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Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that it's just for me, and there's other things that could basically be for anybody or be anything, at least until the lyrics start to get written.
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I never set out to be CEO. I always set out to be a good team member, a good colleague.
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In music, I wanted to make sure I was innovating.
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Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.
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I think it's necessary to identify with anything - with any character you play, there's got to be something in common, so you can link up to that person, even if it's like one tiny thing. But it's equally fun to play somebody completely different, and trying to find what that thing is to make it.
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I believed, after writing 'Mrs. Kimble,' that I knew how to write a novel. I quickly discovered that I only knew how to write that novel. 'Baker Towers' was a different beast entirely; and I felt as though I had to learn to write all over again.
