Jess Walter Quotes
My poems... the ones that start out as jokes become these big ponderous things and the ones that start out ponderous devolve into jokes.
Jess Walter
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Todd and I have a very complementary working style .
Sam Wood
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
D. H. Lawrence
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I've got the sort of personality that requires me to find some sort of release, and for me, it's performing.
Laura Dern
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There are a lot of actors - I'm probably one - who are most at home when they're on stage.
Ian Mckellen
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Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker' and people saying 'OMG, I can so relate to this - this is a guy that I fancy, or a girl that I fancy; it's exactly like this person.'
Olly Murs
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I've always just been attracted to comedy.
Oscar Nunez
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I went to Paris for a year in 1986 to study theatre; there was a lot of clowning around, buffoonery and fencing. It was then that my own style kind of blossomed.
Orla Brady
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Now, I don't mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserve it.
Victoria Jackson
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California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.
D. H. Lawrence
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I second-guess and overthink and rethink every single thing that I do.
Taylor Swift
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I don't make judgments about my own work, and I don't analyze it; I just let it happen. That applies to everything I've done.
Harold Pinter
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The actual getting into the gym and working out process was easier, but the eating was harder. I had to eat every two hours. At one point, my trainer said, 'Put anything in your mouth. Go to McDonald's, get the biggest shake possible. I just need to get calories in you.' Because my body fat at the time was only, like, 7.5%.
Taylor Lautner
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I don't carry a purse when I fly because I have my Hello Kitty carry-on. I'm the biggest adult supporter.
Venus Williams
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When I first started out, 'Time' magazine did an article on what it called 'the sick comics,' and they were myself, Shelley Berman, Nichols & May, Jonathan Winters, Lenny Bruce, and Mort Sahl. We were considered 'sick.'
Bob Newhart
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I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.
William John Wills
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People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped, but guess what, brother? You constructed that life. If you're OK with it, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you've got unease, then you've got to make a change.
Jeremy Renner
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My poems... the ones that start out as jokes become these big ponderous things and the ones that start out ponderous devolve into jokes.
Jess Walter
