Jesse Ball Quotes
My bookshelves have no order. I prune them regularly and sell the books to Myopic Books, a Chicago bookstore. They give me store credit, and then I spend all the store credit, and, presumably, return to sell them back more of the books I bought from them.
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I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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I educated myself. To me, school was boring.
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Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.
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I'm going to prove to the fans, going to prove to my teammates, that I can be a better defensive player, offensive player, to win games.
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I am a hard-news journalist. That is what I do.
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Men create the gods in their own image.
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Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do.
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I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.
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I want all my films to look distinctly different, like some other directors I admire. But in a way, I can't really take myself completely out of the movies I make.
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It's about finding unique, one-of-a-kind films that I would want to see myself. I think 'Party Monster' is one of those.
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I moved out to Los Angeles a fan of many people, and meeting people I put on a pedestal that just disappointed me. Without fans, this business would not exist, so I try and say that we're all on the same level.
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It's time for the State Department to permanently change its official policy to allow all members of U.S. citizens' families - no matter what size they are or how many legs they have - to evacuate together when disaster strikes.
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Directing takes a lot of time.
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And whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska, they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams, and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty Creator.
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Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.
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The Recovery Act is working, but it's going to continue to work. It's not over. A lot's going to happen this summer. And even after the summer, there's more to come with the act.
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I really like it when movies take a song and use it to counterpoint a scene.
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My bookshelves have no order. I prune them regularly and sell the books to Myopic Books, a Chicago bookstore. They give me store credit, and then I spend all the store credit, and, presumably, return to sell them back more of the books I bought from them.
