Jenny Offill Quotes
I like to write from midnight to dawn with great stores of candy and Red Bull laid in... I'm not sure why I have the work habits of a 20-year-old coder, but no matter how many times I set up a more reasonable schedule, I always fall back to this.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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I really like looking at what's new in my favourite designers' stores, even if I don't buy anything.
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As long as the Pentagon bankrolls the Pakistan army to fight its wars, and NATO troops remain in Afghanistan, there will be quarrels, charges of infidelity, a reduction in the household allowance, perhaps a separation - but a divorce? Never.
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.
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Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
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In the case of 'The Deep,' because of the people involved, the talent and the real lives of people who died, I wanted to make the most honest film I could. And sometimes that's the best way to go: Just make the best version of the film you can.
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On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
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I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.
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One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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I've directed enough in the theatre and a couple of films to know that - to feel fairly secure that if I find a story that I really like I can probably get it done somewhat.
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All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
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You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.
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Don't look at someone else and want to be them. Search within yourself and find out who you are and be someone positive.
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Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.
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My wife would say I'm not romantic at all, but I would say that I'm the ultimate romancer because I write about... life being brilliant.
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I like to write from midnight to dawn with great stores of candy and Red Bull laid in... I'm not sure why I have the work habits of a 20-year-old coder, but no matter how many times I set up a more reasonable schedule, I always fall back to this.
