Jonathan Galassi Quotes
A lot of great authors are published before their time. That's not wrong; it's just the way it works.
Quotes to Explore
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.
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I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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I am healthy and happy.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.
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Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.
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Architecture is much more than a profession; It's a discipline.
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'Into The Wild' had a great sense of wild, unpredictable freedom that I loved, and 'Unforgiven' is just a great western with characters that walked the line between right/wrong with an ambiguity that felt very true to frontier life.
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I love that period, between the '20s and the '60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period in time, music wise, and the elegance and the way of being.
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I don't know, if somebody doesn't tell me how would I know?
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Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.
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A lot of great authors are published before their time. That's not wrong; it's just the way it works.
