Jessica Hagedorn Quotes
I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.
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Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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I think that when you don't look at the good things around you, that you lose sight of all those good things. And you're not going to enjoy your life.
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
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In the time I spent with him, Jurgen Klopp was enigmatic, larger than life, and extremely quick-witted. He is quite unique as a football manager in many ways, and that is what makes him so entertaining.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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When Scorsese or Coppola cast celebrities in their work, it goes without question.
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Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
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If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.
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I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
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You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.
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A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
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I finished 'Ice Age: Continental Drift' in 2012, and I'm living in my agent's guest bedroom in Los Angeles because you don't make a ton of money writing an animated film. The movie makes a billion dollars, and you make 'twelve cents.'
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One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it.
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What I am is what I am. Are you what you are - or what?
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I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.
