J. F. Lawton Quotes
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.
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Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
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I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
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But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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You've got to understand, people are motivated by fun. And they should be.
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I love books.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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The first time we ever used the Dixie flag for our backdrop was actually when we went over to Europe in 1970. It looked good, so we all liked it. We never meant any racial things by it.
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There is only so much you can do if you're pulling weight and there's nobody there to play off of. You can't have those beautiful moments with new actors who are so worried about everything else but the moment.
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Look, I've heard a lot of people talk about me, they say I'm like Marmite. They like me, or they don't like me.
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Yeah, well when I first started working, it was $5 a show; it was probably a little higher by the time I got to my own show, but I remember that they put me under contract at $100 a week, which to me was really an astronomical price.
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When I first found out that Superman wasn't real, I was about maybe eight. And I was talking to my mother about it. And she was like, 'No, no, no. There's no Superman.' And I started crying. I really thought he was coming to rescue us. The chaos, the violence, the danger. No hero was coming.
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Time does not die; only people.
