Jerry Coleman Quotes
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If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
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Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.
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If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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I think you just have to accept the fact that no one lives forever, and eventually things are going to come to an end, whether it's a TV show or life.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I'm kind of an antsy person.
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I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for.
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It was not my wish to come into politics. I was not a public person; I preferred to spend my birthdays with family and friends. But the 2008 elections were fraudulent, so I decided to finance the opposition to make them stronger.
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It takes about a year to write an opera for me, but not a really a year of writing. I'm touring at the same time, and I'm playing, sometimes doing smaller projects.[The opera] Akhnaten fits in with Gandhi and Einstein, so that forms a trilogy in a way.I picked people who were these kind of larger than life characters, who kind of changed the world they lived in by almost the force of their personality and their inventiveness. People that I think not only do I admire but I think they're admirable people.
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Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
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I keep recycling and repackaging music that I've done in the past, as though I can't write anymore. Like, okay, I'm done with that. But I need to kind of prod myself again into come on, Herbie, get off your duff and start writing some new music.
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In the age of social media and dating apps, so many people are able to hide behind their Instagram page or their Raya page or Facebook.
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Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play.
