Jules Feiffer (Jules Ralph Feiffer) Quotes
Eventually, if it's on your mind, you stumble on it. You need a certain amount of luck and persistence.
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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
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I take certain steps to make sure I'm relevant artistically. I always have new music and a reason to be on the road. I'm not just playing 'Get By' over and over. I have 12 albums.
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The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
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Stay focused on the mission.
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How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
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It's cool having a little bit of money to do your thing.
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Religion works on some people but not on everyone, because it says, 'Stop thinking and accept what I tell you.' That's not valid for people who want to think and reflect.
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When climate change supercharges weather patterns, the disadvantaged often suffer first and most.
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Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
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On films, you have the liberty of working out the details, the psychology, taking maybe more risks and takes than you can in television just because you can't be figuring things out on the day.
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I leave with sadness, but with pride: Dravid on retirement
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You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.
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Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.
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If we didn't need eight hours of sleep and could survive on six, Mother Nature would have done away with 25 percent of our sleep time millions of years ago. Because when you think about it, sleep is an idiotic thing to do.
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A misanthrope I can understand - a womanthrope never.
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I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.
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Let me be as weird as I fuckin' like. It's my fuckin' life.
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I take ownership of every mistake I've ever made.
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Eventually, if it's on your mind, you stumble on it. You need a certain amount of luck and persistence.
