John Jakes Quotes
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You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
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I can't keep secrets about myself. I can keep secrets about other people, but if it's about myself, I'm like, 'blah blah blah blah.'
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I am an obsessive personality. And if you are an obsessive personality, you need to be aware of it and be able to drive it with success. There are moments in your life when you are driving it well, but you shift and you shift badly and you hurt yourself.
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Young audience, in the age group of 16-33 years, constitutes the main viewership of Bollywood films.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
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People that watch Adult Swim don't watch the Oscars.
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You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.
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We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women.
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I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
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Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.
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Have you seen that show on Lifetime about that woman...?
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If you want to see the real Pablo Escobar, go see a documentary.
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The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
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Life is a series of chapters, and one leads to another to another to another, and God knows what it is.
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Anybody who is anybody seems to be getting a lift - by plastic surgery these days. It's the new world wide craze that combines the satisfactions of psychoanalysis, massage, and a trip to the beauty salon.
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The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was that Washington was ultimately able to control his emotions, something Arnold never learned to do.
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If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it.
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I support parents making the best decisions for their kids' education.
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No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone, but is beyond control: luck.
