Jonathan Galassi Quotes
The only thing you can really say in a poem is what you really, really deeply believe.
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I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.
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When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
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Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
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I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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Mr. Balanchine wanted me to be myself. He didn't want me to look like anyone else. I love teaching our company dancers the Balanchine ballets. I try to give them what was passed down to me and what I learned from him. They dance it so beautifully. It also keeps me close to Mr. Balanchine. He's with me every single day.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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My knock with filmmaking is the whole bureaucracy around it, so in some ways, staying outside of it is easier for me.
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How can I convert the enthusiasm of voters into a practical programme of action that meets their desire for economic security and greater prosperity?
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I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.
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The present flowed by them like a stream. The tree rustled. It had made music before they were born, and would continue after their deaths, but its song was of the moment. The moment had passed. The tree rustled again. Their senses were sharpened, and they seemed to apprehend life. Life passed. The tree rustled again.
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The economy grows when families can spend money on personal priorities rather than priorities imposed by the federal government.
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I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It's wild and incredible.
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I just like the themes it's exploring. In the way my character says, 'I want us to become brothers again, like we used to be.' I really like that line, and it means a lot to me. I just find there's a lot of things like that in this movie that have that feeling. There's stuff that feels exhilarating.
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The only thing you can really say in a poem is what you really, really deeply believe.
