Joe Jamail Quotes
It's not a bad thing fighting for equality and helping the poor. It's not a bad thing to have on your professional tombstone: 'He believed in equality and he helped the poor.'
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In reality, throughout your career, you have to make yourself interesting enough for people to be waiting to see your films. In my case, people are longing to see what I come out with next. That's my success.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.
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I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward. It showed everyone that you can just sit really quiet with storylines and characters. It can be scary, it can be uncomfortable, it can be weirdly funny.
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We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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I'd do the same things, but I'd be a little more quiet.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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I don't feel that electronic music has to stand on the back of urban artists or anyone else to be recognized. It's great music.
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We are all lucky to be here, we are lucky to be on stage and have millions of people watch us.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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We are never complacent. My job is to make us look 10 years out and be prepared.
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By the time I reached 50, I'd accumulated many unresolved fears and desires.
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What I described in 'Another Life' - about being on the hill and feeling the sort of dissolution that happened - is a frequent experience in a younger writer.
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A winner is someone who can look in the mirror at the end of the day and say in pursuit of my goal and dreams I gave my best.
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Actors like to play bad guys because they're more fun. They also win more awards.
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It's not a bad thing fighting for equality and helping the poor. It's not a bad thing to have on your professional tombstone: 'He believed in equality and he helped the poor.'
