Jimmy Breslin Quotes
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.
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I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.
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I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.
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The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.
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The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.
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One of the things is, in the writing process, if you do it enough, you have a sense of where you are. I didn't have that with the first book as I was writing it. Now, as I write books, I have a sense of where I am. Unfortunately, the sense of where I am is usually behind.
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All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.
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The greatest gift I've been given is being naive, because I don't know what I can't do. And when you don't know what you can't do, you think you can do everything.
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Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
