Joe Shuster Quotes
Jerry picked up the technique of visualizing the story as a movie scenario; and whenever he gave me a script, I would see it as a screenplay. That was the technique that Jerry used, and I just picked it up.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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To be honest, as an actor, job security is not a trait.
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
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Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.
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Men stop trying after a while and get lazy.
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There's only one life. There's no repeats. You only get one life, and you gotta take advantage of it.
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Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
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People have been so supportive of this career for so long, and they are still enjoying the music that I bring to them.
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I love a mix of kickboxing, gym, yoga, Pilates, horse riding, and dancing. I also do skinny rappelling, which is a quick cardio workout with music and lighting, so it's fun.
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Jerry picked up the technique of visualizing the story as a movie scenario; and whenever he gave me a script, I would see it as a screenplay. That was the technique that Jerry used, and I just picked it up.
