Jessy Schram Quotes
'Last Resort,' to me, is very much about finding truth and integrity in an extraordinary situation.
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It was like an honor thing for me to meet 50 cause I respected his whole story.
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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
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You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.
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I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
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I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.
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I'm not trying to be a star on TV. I am who I am, which I hope comes out. I have a little bit of a different sense than most people know, and it takes a while to get used to it.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century.
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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
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I wanted to explore the possibility that this could have become 'Planet of the Humans and the Apes' instead of just 'Planet of the Apes,' so I wanted there to be this hope of connection as well as this inexorable pull towards what we know the series becomes.
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It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!
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I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline.
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They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.
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Whatever we want to think about American business - work hard, tell the truth, have morality - it's a myth. There's a lot of graft.
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'Last Resort,' to me, is very much about finding truth and integrity in an extraordinary situation.
