Jonathan Galassi Quotes
I think publishers need to be the ones that publish the books and control that process: finding writers, helping them with their work, finding readers. I think writers need that.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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I always used to watch 'The Daily Show,' and there were all these comedic geniuses there. I didn't know if I was going to be hired full time or not. At the beginning, I was sort of hired as a part time, on and off guy. When I first got hired - it was August 2006 - and I was working on and off, and they'd call me whenever.
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Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?
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I didn't go to school a lot.
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Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together.
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Let us all pledge to protect this opportunity in order to see that the wish of peace becomes a true and daily fact in this region.
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We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.
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If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.
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I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.
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The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point.
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The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.
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One of the things I love about jazz music is that intent is first and execution is second. In classical music, execution is first and intent is second, meaning that you must first learn a piece before you can truly add your interpretation to it.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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I like a lot of the stuff that they did without me, the time I wasn't around.
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If you walk into the front hallway of the CIA, you will see, on your left, a statue of William 'Wild Bill' Donovan. Bill Donovan was the person who created the OSS, the Office of Strategic Services, which was America's spy agency during World War II and then kind of morphed into what's now the CIA.
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I think publishers need to be the ones that publish the books and control that process: finding writers, helping them with their work, finding readers. I think writers need that.
