Jessica Williams Quotes
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.
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I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.
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I think Mickey Gall's going to be really good.
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On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.
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Government bonds have basically been sold in the domestic market, so there is some sense of stability, but the amount of public debt is really severe... Japan must manage its finances with a sense of urgency.
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As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.
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I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
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The rules are all in a sixty-four-page pamphlet by Aristotle called 'Poetics.' It was written almost three thousand years ago, but I promise you, if something is wrong with what you're writing, you've probably broken one of Aristotle's rules.
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As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
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Love is always being given where it is not required.
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I will not hear a word against him. I love my Bieber!
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'Love Story' I wrote on my bedroom floor in about 20 minutes.
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The role of my agent has just been to get me in the room. If I can get in the room - say the character is just a charming man who lives next door - then I'll walk in there and be as charming as I can and they will think to themselves, 'I don't see why we can't cast him.'
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Blood tells - always remember that - blood tells.
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Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.
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An epic is the canvas Brian DePalma paints on.
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Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
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Getting trade policy right is huge for our economy and huge for Maryland. This is about creating Maryland jobs by selling Maryland products to Asia, moving right from Western Maryland farms out through the Port of Baltimore.
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France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.
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Somehow, I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. The special secret it seems to me is summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Courage, Confidence and Constancy. And the greatest of all is Confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.
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I jumped into acting because it was fun. It was tougher when I had to take my fun seriously.
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Don't try to fix anyone, especially not a dude. They're not going to change.
