Jill McCorkle Quotes
Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe.
Quotes to Explore
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'
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I am anything but a misogynist - I am quite far to the other side of that.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
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India remains one of the few nations which still focuses entirely on an archaic de-addiction model, administered by the ministry of social justice and empowerment, to address drinking problems, adhering to a centuries-old idea of these problems being a moral disorder rather than a health condition.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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Our laws guarantee all students the right to a K-12 education, regardless of their immigration status.
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I don't think of myself as a powerful woman.
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Art and activism seem to go together naturally, the idea being that if you're an entertainer, you can have a voice, and if you have a voice, you can make a difference. But if I were not an actress, I would still try to extend myself beyond my little micro-universe of my job, family and personal joy.
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If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn't marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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I don't even want to call it God. I just want to call it connecting with something that's greater than I am. So that's the biggest thing from Tennessee - the spirit.
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Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe.
