Jonathan Galassi Quotes
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'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.
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When it comes down to hardball, we have a veto pen, and I've used it in the past, and I expect we will have opportunity to use it in the future. That's the nature of the business.
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Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.
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I just miss - I miss being anonymous.
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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
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Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.
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'Halo' I wrote with my grandpa in his nursing home. When I went to visit him, he'd often comment on my halo. But of course, I couldn't see. And he always - he had pictures of Jesus with these beautiful halos. And so I asked him if he'd write a song with me about Jesus' halo.
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Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.
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Apart from 'Stoned,' I can't think of a film that's made me think, 'Blimey, that should have been at Cannes.'
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Aging gracefully is about no heavy makeup, and not too much powder because it gets into the wrinkles, and, you know, to not get turtle eyelids and to not try to look young.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
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My poems are always about my life in one way or another.
