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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Christian values were important at home. Cleanliness. Don't steal. Don't lie. Those were the rules, and they were strictly enforced. Especially the stealing and lying. When you broke the rules, you got a beating. I always broke the rules a lot.
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Money is like hormones. It's just how you feel on any given day.
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Most people don't pray until they're in trouble. When people need help they pray a lot. But after they get what they want, they slow down. If a man takes five showers a day, his body will be clean. Praying five times a day helps me clean my mind.
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There was a spell in the second half when I took my heart off my sleeve and put it in my mouth.
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Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.
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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.
