Jeremy Northam Quotes
Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
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Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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I went to a couple of Rangers games at the Garden, and someone at the NHL had seen me and figured I was a fan and decided to approach me about having a blog during the playoffs.
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If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
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I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.
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Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
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The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.
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When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.
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After I play every character, I always walk away and feel a little different. I've experienced something that's not my life, but I've made it my life.
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The Phil Spector that I would meet has always been a nice, quiet, little guy who's very serious about his work; obviously you can tell that because each and everything he's ever done has always been charted.
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Patrick stepped in there and did a heck of a job. And I don't know if you can say enough about Santana.
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Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.
