Jennifer McMahon Quotes
Poetry taught me a great deal about language and images, but when it came to plotting, I was stumped. It's been very much a learn-by-doing thing for me.
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.
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I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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We were all so different, temperamentally from one another, it's impossible to believe that we were together for so long. The cast and crew. How could we be more different from one another? It's difficult to imagine. But something lovely came of it.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.
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My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
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God and death kind of resemble each other, because the only time a lot of people will try and talk to God is when someone's died.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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I am ready to fight according to the rules, and I ask for the opportunity to prove myself.
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What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.
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I'm a rock and roll singer.
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L.A. is my office. I come here for work and work only.
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At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book.
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book.
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Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars.
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Poetry taught me a great deal about language and images, but when it came to plotting, I was stumped. It's been very much a learn-by-doing thing for me.
