Hugh Newell Jacobsen Quotes
Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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I don't find it hard to direct myself. I can easily think of me as a horrible performer or a good performer. I work with actors who cannot stand watching or looking at themselves, which is not my case. I can have an eye and perspective on whether I'm terrible or good enough for me.
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It's funny the things the Internet likes to proclaim.
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I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.
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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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If something touches me, I cry. That's it. I'm a bit raw, a bit rubbish, really. Often, a director will say to me, 'I don't think this is a scene where your character cries.' And all I can say is, good luck with that!
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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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The movie 'Vacation' had a whole different ending. They never even got to the amusement park, Wallyworld, at the end of 'Vacation.' The last 20 minutes of the film was entirely different - and bombed so badly that the audience just stopped cold.
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We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.
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I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.
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What bothered me most about chick lit, frankly, was how the term was used to dismiss a huge chunk of the bookstore as silly, girlish prattle.
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No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.
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I always struggle with making the technical aspects of the plot fit with the story that's unfolding in my imagination.
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The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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There's room for role models who make mistakes.
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The odyssey is not going out and seeing the world: it's about trying to get home. It's home to the woman you love.
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Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference.
