Jesse Kellerman Quotes
We crime novelists have a great pulpit. We write about justice and about correcting injustice.
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I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.
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As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.
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I work out at home. I don't have a gym, but I use light weights. I do calisthenics, which is basically using your own body weight, like you do in yoga, to strengthen your core. I also do a bit of cardio.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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Managers are the most creative people in the world.
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We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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It would be thrilling, obviously, to be able to have a woman and an openly LGBT person as the mayor of New York City.
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There are a wealth of flavorings you can put in a salt, and if you're in a hurry that's your seasoning. That's all you have to do.
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Nothing comes from doing nothing.
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Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.
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The way Pixar has always worked is that we think of an idea and then we make it. We don't develop lots of ideas and then pick one.
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We crime novelists have a great pulpit. We write about justice and about correcting injustice.
