Jesse Ball Quotes
New York feels like sometimes it's not part of the United States. So does L.A. Chicago feels like it's a big city that's part of America.
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'
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It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
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Breitbart media is named after the same gentleman who basically framed Shirley Sherrod during the Obama administration.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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For twenty years, Islamic Jihadists have been attacking American interests around the world and we did not take them seriously until September 11th, 2001.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
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If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. Clearly I'm not meant to do anything else.
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Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Most writers have no idea how to make a film. It's a totally different skill set. Nor is it just to translate exactly what's on the page directly on to the screen - because that would be terrible. It would be five hours long, and the structure would be a mess. But the writers know the characters and the story.
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It's very frightening when you're told you have any form of the c-word, but because of early detection, they caught it before it had hardly begun. I'm completely cured and will go on to have a wonderful, fruitful life. I'll never die of prostate cancer.
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The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.
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We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
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Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.
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You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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Welcome to the Mile High City, ... and I really am.
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To be an actor wasn't something that seemed realistic. I started late; I was about 19.
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New York feels like sometimes it's not part of the United States. So does L.A. Chicago feels like it's a big city that's part of America.
