Joshua Prager Quotes
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.
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It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
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At Uniqlo, we're thinking ahead. We're thinking about how to create new, innovative products... and sell that to everyone.
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Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.
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Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.
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The French have a saying: 'Time will not consecrate that in which she has been ignored.' Bear this admonition ever in mind for it is deeply true. And so, while I say we will neither hasten nor delay, let us not delay. All of which is summed up in the proverbs :
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No Indian ever went outside his own country on a warlike expedition, so righteous were they.
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on reacting to racism I don't wanna be the better person. I don't wanna rise above it. I do wanna sink down to their level. I am not gonna turn the other cheek. 'I'mma gonna show you what cheek I'mma turn, OK!'
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I let people see the cracks in my life. We can't be phony. We've got to keep it real.
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I was born in Paris and raised in the suburbs and then lived in the countryside.
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Pemex will remain 100 percent Mexican.
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Like most people, I was not able to start selling my stories right away. So I had many other jobs along the way to becoming a writer, including toy maker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, I became an elementary teacher and worked with second and fourth graders.
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If I ever write a book, it will be called 'Bottle Blonde.'
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I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.
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My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life.
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Desperate is not a sexual preference.
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I really like writing in English, and it's the best job I've ever had.
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Writing has always helped me to make sense of difficult things.
