Jesse Kellerman Quotes
All writers start out mimicking other writers. I've never relinquished that. I have a good ear for speech and writing patterns.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
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The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
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When you've got children, it's easy to do that thing of keeping a tally of who woke up earliest and whose turn it is to put them to bed. But I think the important thing is to appreciate and love each other and to show that appreciation.
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I just write and do what I think is funny. Sometimes, you do have it in your head about certain bits. There are certain jokes where I know if I did them in certain situations, it would irk people. There are times where I look at the news and see a story going on, and I'm like, 'Wow, if I tweeted this, I would get press if I wanted to.'
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Texting is fingered speech. Now we can write the way we talk.
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I'm not an ardent feminist - well, maybe I am an ardent feminist. I just roll my eyes at the way women are constantly used and how sensitive men are about photographs of themselves.
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For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and besides, Jupiter's is much prettier. You may not realize its advantages until you're trying to breathe liquid methane.
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The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.
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Whatever it is, / I cannot understand it, / although gratitude / stubbornly overcomes me / until I'm reduced to tears.
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All writers start out mimicking other writers. I've never relinquished that. I have a good ear for speech and writing patterns.
