Jesse McCartney Quotes
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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Everything with me is pretty close to the surface, but having kids has completely ruined my emotional equilibrium.
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I think it's fair to say that all of the teams that have been in the playoffs have played very physically.
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Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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We feel like 'Lost' deserved a real resolution, not a 'snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black' kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show.
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I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.
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I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
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It's time to re-think charity. It's time to give charity the big-league freedoms we really give to business. The fight for these freedoms must be our new cause, because without them, all of our causes are ultimately lost.
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Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.
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The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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We have now in our possession three instruments of civilization, unknown to antiquity. These are the art of printing; free representative government; and, lastly, a pure and spiritual religion, the deep fountain of generous enthusiasm, the mighty spring of bold and lofty designs, the great sanctuary of moral power.
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We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class.
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I think film and television - particularly film - you are very isolated as a writer. If you're lucky, you have a good relationship with the director. Then you do make that development and come on set and be part of something. But ultimately, your work is kind of done by the time you come on set.
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It's good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.
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If you really want it, you need to really work for it.
