Jim Rash Quotes
Writing sketches, you're also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.
Quotes to Explore
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?'
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The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
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I'm a pretty plain-spoken guy.
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There can be no mercy without truth.
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He makes a July's day short as December.
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All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.
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The way I sometimes approach my work, when I look at a script for the first time, is to identify what the archetypes are and what the writing is trying to do in that context.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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Writing sketches, you're also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.
