Jessica Williams Quotes
Post-'Daily Show' has been so busy, which I've been surprised about. We're basically independent contractors in a way. So you have one gig, and you're worried about never getting another gig again, or at least I do.
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The want of money is the root of all evil.
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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I don't really think about the runs too much. I mean, if we get, like, a five-run lead, then I'll start to pitch according to that.
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I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where for the first time in my life I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books. This was where I discovered 'Encyclopedia Brown' and 'Nancy Drew,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Rebecca.' This was where I became inspired to be a writer.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'
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I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.
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Small ideas won't help Illinois' future.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.
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Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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I believe there's only one autobiography you can do.
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Every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top. My mama, she told me don't worry about your size. She says boys like a little more booty to hold at night. Yeah I won't be no stick figure silicone Barbie doll, so if that's what you're into then go ahead and move along.
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My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.
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We are bigger in number than as many as 131 independent nations, why should we remain deprived of independence?
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Post-'Daily Show' has been so busy, which I've been surprised about. We're basically independent contractors in a way. So you have one gig, and you're worried about never getting another gig again, or at least I do.
