Jesse Andrews Quotes
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.
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Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.
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I'm a '90s baby.
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When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contract that I sign with myself to say, 'I don't care what happens - I'm going to stay on this path. I'm going to try and see this through; I'm going to give it my best shot, my best effort.'
Gail Devers -
The way management treats associates is exactly how the associates will treat the customers.
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I was really dramatic, really concerned with love or life.
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The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
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No one looks at a baby and says, 'You are going to be a great novelist, and you really need to start writing now.' Something in us says: 'This is what I must do.'
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One of the things I did in my book, I start off with, is explaining how great our grace was: the things we were able to accomplish after the first one-hundred years from slavery.
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If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.
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I never took creative writing.
