Jimmy Breslin Quotes
I don't know any other columnists, and I don't know what they do. I work the single! And nobody does what I do, anyway.
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I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
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In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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I always used to watch 'The Daily Show,' and there were all these comedic geniuses there. I didn't know if I was going to be hired full time or not. At the beginning, I was sort of hired as a part time, on and off guy. When I first got hired - it was August 2006 - and I was working on and off, and they'd call me whenever.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.
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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
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I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.
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I only started playing piano because I had chickenpox when I was about 14 and wasn't allowed to play my drums for a whole week... We had a piano in the house, so I just sat down and played that instead.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
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When I see dads being most effective with children, it is usually when they have an intuitive understanding that, for example, the car trip to and from the soccer game is potentially as important as the game itself.
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It's not pleasant when you lose your whole football team.
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You do get into a groove, which is great, when you get to act with the same people a lot. Like with Caroline Catz - it's like a duet: you're like a duo jamming together.
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We're teaching a generation of students who've been schooled to produce quick, right answers on demand. They are not comfortable with ambiguity. The implications of that in the long term are discomforting.
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Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.
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I don't know any other columnists, and I don't know what they do. I work the single! And nobody does what I do, anyway.
