Jonathan Carroll Quotes
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Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.
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William and I feel that every child deserves to be supported through difficult times in their lives.
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The percentage of actors employed is pretty small, and if you're lucky enough to have a good run at it, you do have a sense of responsibility.
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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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We in Congress stand by Israel. In Congress, we speak with one voice on the subject of Israel.
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I have a really great show jacket from Lavalliere that's really well made, and I have a great pair of Gucci jodhpurs, which is hilarious.
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We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can have a baby when I like, I can do any job I want - but I do think chivalry has been lost a little bit.
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I love to go shopping and see what catches my eye.
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Our dog, Comet, is a Lab/poodle mix. She's goofy and silly and sweet.
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Retire? I will never retire.
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Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.
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The achievements of willpower are almost beyond computation. Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough.
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I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives.
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Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere.
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The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got.
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We believe that failing to call a spade a spade is not scientific.
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That was the theme of the Million Mom March: I don't need a brain - I've got a womb.
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Death showed up in my life very early on, so I'm aware of it. If you look at most of the things I write there's a sort of contemplation of mortality - although 'True Blood' doesn't fall into that. Even though there's such a ridiculously high body count!
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We don't have to live up to the expectations of others. Passion is personal. As long as our passion is fueled with the right stuff then keep on plodding forward. I'll never be Mark Twain or Tom Clancy. But that's okay, because neither of them could teach you to mix a boundless number of grays, or where to place the catch light in a portrait.
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I've sold shows based on my standup twice to CBS, but they've never gone past the script stage. TV is very competitive.
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When your head is smashing into the concrete you don't have question about whether it's a real sensation. And ultimately, that's what's going to unmake us all - smashing up against the physical reality of death and decay, and being unmade.
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Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
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I've never seen myself as a fantasy writer - ever.
