Jim Messina Quotes
I realized being together was a bigger thing than any of us alone. So that clinched it for me. That made me want to explore it further.
Quotes to Explore
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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'Marco Polo' had some negative reactions in the press. Viewers have loved it, and the volume of viewing has been phenomenal.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.
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I remember trying to be funny, and both of my parents were terribly funny. My father was also very dignified, but my mother was an absolute ding-a-ling, a ripper.
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I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.
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Celebrity is seen by a huge amount of people and certainly myself for a while as the pinnacle of society, of success. It is revered almost religiously, both the institution and its quickly growing member base.
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London is like a girlfriend I loved, then really fell out with.
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To me, there's no great chef without a great team.
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There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.
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A poem should be a part of one's sense of life.
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It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.
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I want to work with anyone who's passionate about telling a story. I obviously have a list of people I really love, but it's a really long list.
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The biggest profit center for investment banks is the hefty fees they charge for underwriting stock offerings and giving financial advice, and analysts put those profits at risk if they publish negative conclusions about the companies that pay the fees.
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I was a slightly geeky kid.
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One of my favorite rules of writing: stop whenever it's feeling really good so you have something to look forward to the next day.
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I had no idea how big the show was at the time we were doing it because I was always working.
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The cosmos exploded, actualizing its potentiality of space and time. The centers of power, like fragments of a bursting bomb, were hurled apart. But each one retained in itself, as a memory and a longing, the single point of the whole; and each mirrored in itself aspects of all the others throughout all the cosmical space and time.
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I realized being together was a bigger thing than any of us alone. So that clinched it for me. That made me want to explore it further.
