Jesse Ball Quotes
In life, people talk at right angles. One asks a question, and the other replies in part, then uses that part to move the conversation to something else. Everyone has an agenda, has something they're trying to say - or not say.
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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My favorite car is a '69 Barracuda.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I'll get up at 5 or 6. I try to catch up on sleep on the weekends, so I'll try to get seven hours of sleep. During the week, my ideal is to go to bed at 9 and wake up six hours later.
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I love Channing Tatum!
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I care about Bahrain. Bahrain is very dear to me. I will not allow people to play around with our laws.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run as a Republican or a Democrat.
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I'm sporty, active, bubbly, I like to make people laugh... I'm the jokester. But I'm also very traditional.
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My first book was so horrible I have deleted all copies of it. Thankfully, it was before the Internet, so there are no lurking caches of it anywhere.
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I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.
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I try not to write songs. I would rather emote them, and I found myself going back to my room every night while on my trip, just pouring out new songs and new stories about what I was seeing, what I was feeling.
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Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.
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In life, people talk at right angles. One asks a question, and the other replies in part, then uses that part to move the conversation to something else. Everyone has an agenda, has something they're trying to say - or not say.
