Jessica Hagedorn Quotes
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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
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There's more to life than physical and material.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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He is very upbeat but we hear that all the time from just about any athlete.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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That's what acting is - it's about... having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.
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Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in control enough to capture what's happening.
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Much of my work strikes me as pretty unified: as a lawyer, working in several areas, I have thought about how to promote freedom of speech broadly for everyone.
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It is only the ignorant who despise education.
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There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs.
