J. D. Trout Quotes
The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear.
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
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I want someone who will love me for the person I am and not because of my status. It has to be someone who understands the pressure of playing for India. It will be very difficult to be with a person who has her own career because someone has to make sacrifices for the family and house.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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I'm constantly maxing out my Gmail account, and that is hard to do.
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If you're into a leather-jacketed crime fighter and his artificially intelligent robotic supercar, tune into 'The Good Wife.' If, on the other hand, you prefer the misadventures of a freelance itinerant trucker and his simian sidekick, check out 'The Walking Dead.' Or DVR them both and go talk to your family.
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This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
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When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'
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Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing.
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In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.
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Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.
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If all of us try to do everything, we will accomplish nothing.
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I always get bored, and I like to do different things, but it isn't something I'm going to do in the near future.
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Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems in the world. Yet we are still incapable of meeting the needs of tens of thousands of Canadian families.
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Call me Ildar! Call me Abra-ca-da-bra! My name is my name.
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A lot of people relate me to the blues but I don't think it's a hindrance at this point. I've been doing it long enough that I can do different things and be accepted.
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The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear.
