Jimmy Breslin Quotes
Pick up any newspaper in the morning. Count the words in the lead sentences. There will be at least 25 in all of them: Guaranteed. The writers just want to tell you how many degrees they have from this college or that university.
Quotes to Explore
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
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The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.
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My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much.
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Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.
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When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
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My idea of an actor is to be different persons with different roles. Every time a script interests me, I look for interesting characters because I intend to completely transport myself into it. This happens only because I am a very greedy actor. I am not part of the rat race because I am living a dream.
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I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.
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I've always been a very prolific writer.
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Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion.
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Even when I get dressed up to go out, I never use too much makeup.
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During the later part of the 19th century, it was believed that a sound of change affected the whole of a language simultaneously: one sound system would smoothly develop into the next, and all words which contained a particular sound would be affected in the same way.
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Pick up any newspaper in the morning. Count the words in the lead sentences. There will be at least 25 in all of them: Guaranteed. The writers just want to tell you how many degrees they have from this college or that university.
