Stephen Graham Jones Quotes
I figure anytime you put an adjective before 'writer,' it's a way of dismissing the writer.
Stephen Graham Jones
Quotes to Explore
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
Edmund Burke
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
Frances McDormand
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Here's the deal with Matty Morrison: He is the most unassuming, nicest, most humble guy, who also happens to be extremely talented.
Victoria Clark
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The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.
Ilan Stavans
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I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.
Halle Berry
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I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
Edith Wharton
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I think I weighed about 450/460 at my heaviest. That's huge! That's Fat Joe. And you know, I always took pride in being fat.
Fat Joe
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When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
Fran Lebowitz
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At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
Patrick Lencioni
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Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment - we're living inside commercials.
J. G. Ballard
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Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.
Barbara Januszkiewicz
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Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.
Laura Linney
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If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
Eckhart Tolle
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My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.
Patrick Fugit
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The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn't simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it's a story about who you want to be.
Oprah Winfrey
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Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.
M. H. Abrams
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I'm minimalistic when it comes to makeup, so I'm a sucker for anything that's multi-tasking. Aquaphor is my go-to product. It's great for adding gloss to eyes and cheekbones, and amazing for soothing dry cuticles, too.
Mandy Moore
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The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung
