Jessie Usher Quotes
For the most part, it's about keeping the same people around you - people who really care about your well-being - they keep you focused.
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The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
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Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!
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At 18, I wanted to work with the creme de la creme because I thought that was the only way to be successful. But I don't think any A-lister has done as many B-grade films as I have.
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I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.
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The thing is, a lot of our vets come home and they feel displaced, and they don't feel like their voice matters, so for me to be a spokesman and have that honor to educate America about who we are and what we are, it's like I'm doing my job.
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We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
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[Writing scripts] I'm not looking to jump in and make super mainstream movies. I still like to make movies that I like to see.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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I'm a relic, and things were a lot different when I was fifteen and sixteen. There were no cell phones, no laptops... I learned to type on an actual typewriter.
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I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.
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For the most part, it's about keeping the same people around you - people who really care about your well-being - they keep you focused.
