Jack Kilmer Quotes
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Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.
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I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
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I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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There are times when marriage is not such a comfortable place... But you find your way; you become a different person. You grow into it. And you have to work at marriage every day.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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You don't just wake up one morning and decide to become a singer-songwriter.
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Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.
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Everybody knows the story of The Smiths. You can still go and see Morrissey.
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Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.
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My mind is constantly creating and searching, but I can't make myself put the right words on paper until I'm ready. Once I'm ready, I'm a focused, disciplined writer who will put in twelve hours a day at the computer, but I also spend a lot of time away from the computer getting to that point.
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Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.
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First of all I will talk to (U.S.) President (George W.) Bush.
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I'm not the kind of guy who walks around with a notebook writing lyrics. For me, melody and song structure come first and foremost. Unless the melody gets stuck in my head, I'll move on. Once I have the musical idea pretty firm, I just try to write words that are incredibly honest and relate to my life on that given night. I'll sit with the music on my headphones and pen and paper all night long until it's done.
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Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.
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I am just an actor, and this is my job. What I am doing is not extraordinary.
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What goes on between the actor and director is sacred.
