H. G. Bissinger Quotes
I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.
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People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'
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I don't like to talk about girlfriend stuff. It's not necessary. I try to keep my relationships separate from everything else.
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It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
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My first film crush was Mark Lester as Oliver Twist in the Carol Reed film.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
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If you give the audience what they want when they want how they want it, they won't steal it.
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When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.
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Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.
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I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
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In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
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People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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I grew up with games. It changed my life. It changed my social relationships with my friends. It defined my childhood. It's something I really cherished.
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The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.
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Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
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What ultimately makes 'The Wire' uplifting amid the heartbreak it conveys is its embodiment of a spirit that Barack Obama calls 'the audacity of hope.' It is filled with characters who should quit but don't, not only the boys themselves but teachers, cops, ex-cops, and ex-cons who lose their hearts to them.
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My father kind of had hopes that I was going to become an artist like him - the typical thing. Of course I could play guitar better than him when I was about 12. But I couldn't paint better than him. So I went, 'I'm going to be the guitarist of the house, not the painter.'
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I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
