Jessie Mueller Quotes
I grew up watching the films of 'Carousel' and 'Oklahoma' and 'The Music Man' and 'My Fair Lady' - all the classic musicals of that golden era, The sort of more modern musical theater, or what was modern when I was at a ripe teenage age, I wasn't really listening to that stuff. I was really more raised on the classics.
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I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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I am not a hereditary politician and do not have any substantial asset.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.
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I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.
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The people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
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So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.
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The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.
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I've been using the same editor, thankfully, she's been sticking with me, but I've been doing it full-on guerilla style... I haven't gotten any public sponsor or anything, because I don't want to seem like I'm trying to sell any particular thing.
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William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.
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The objective of hypertext research is to save the planet.
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I got caught up on drugs for a few years, I'm off it, I'm very happy, got two kids and a family and everything. And like I said I'm making the underground music, and keeping it real.
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Modern mass culture, aimed at the 'consumer', the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being.
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I grew up watching the films of 'Carousel' and 'Oklahoma' and 'The Music Man' and 'My Fair Lady' - all the classic musicals of that golden era, The sort of more modern musical theater, or what was modern when I was at a ripe teenage age, I wasn't really listening to that stuff. I was really more raised on the classics.
