Joel Rosenberg Quotes
This is a continuation of what I started two years ago with 'Don Giovanni.' I want to continue this tradition of bringing highlights of great operas on the series.
Quotes to Explore
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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I like the idea of being so passionate about everything I do and the fact that I might wake up tomorrow and say 'I want to be a chef,' and just pour myself into that.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time lines for each major character and a time line for the entire novel: What is going on in the world as my characters struggle with their problems?
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.
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I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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My grandmother was a Muslim. My mother is Christian. And I don't know what I am, but I believe in God.
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Luther could not be ignorant of this mediaeval version. He made judicious use of it, as he did also of old German and Latin hymns. Without such aid he could hardly have finished his New Testament in the short space of three months.
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As a goal scorer, my focus is always on converting my chances and being clinical in the box. That's my No. 1 priority.
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I think that some of the most amazing places to be or to grow up are the places right outside of great cities, because you're sort of constantly in this suspended state of, like, looking inside the window, wanting to be in the party. I think it breeds good feelings.
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This is a continuation of what I started two years ago with 'Don Giovanni.' I want to continue this tradition of bringing highlights of great operas on the series.
