Jerry Herman Quotes
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	A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.   
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	You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.   
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	To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.   
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	My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.   
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	We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.   
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	I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.   
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	A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.   
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	Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.   
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	It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.   
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	Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.   
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	I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.   
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	Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.   
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	I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.   
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	Pablo wanted to be loved and accepted. He wanted to destroy the elite he despised so much, but he also wanted to be the president of Colombia.   
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	I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.   
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	On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.   
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	I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.   
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	By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tiny little electric car that didn't go very far or very fast. People thought I'd lost my mind. Even my own family thought I'd lost my mind.   
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	I've lived on my own since 17, and when I found I wasn't working all the time, I ended up starting a small theatre company called Red One Theatre.   
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	I was living in Evanston, Illinois and I was taking theater classes down the street, and our theater school was kind of affiliated with an agency, and so I went on one audition for whatever that movie was, 'My Stepmother is an Alien' or whatever it was, and 'Roseanne' was my second audition.   
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	My first holiday to San Francisco in 1998-99 was supposed to be a two-week vacation but I ended up staying five weeks and nearly didn't come home.   
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	If you have body hair, I'm like, 'Have your body hair. Have it sticking up the top of your shirt.' I'm really about body positivity and self-love.   
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	I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.   
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	I don't want the kind of theater that I love and grew up seeing to die out.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					