Jack Straw Quotes
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There was a period where I was a little scared that I'd blown my chance.
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When you are in the public eye, you have to protect yourself. There are so many people judging you. I just try to be myself.
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Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.
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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
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I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.
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When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.
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I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much.
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I'm the curvy one of the family.
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I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience.
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This circus games aspect has existed since the beginning of my career.
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My first audition was for a Dr. Pepper commercial.
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Something that's interesting is how my perspective on different events can change over time even though the events themselves haven't changed. As I get older, I interpret something differently, or I can even interpret a person differently.
Curtis Sittenfeld
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Marriage fascinates me: how we negotiate its span, how we change within it, how it changes itself, and why some relationships survive and others do not. There isn't a single marriage that couldn't provide enough narrative arc for a novel.
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Most of the TV shows I've done have all been in the U.S.
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I've rewritten a lot of the scripts I've done. 'Little Shop Of Horrors' was a complete rewrite, but I didn't touch the dialogue. Essentially, I'm a very good editor.
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Everything happens in the kitchen. Life happens in the kitchen.
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I don't know if we will ever try again because those sort of things are very hard to organise but yes, I've known Doon for years and John as well but I hadn't met Will before, and he turned out to be a good laugh.
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And the most important thing - apart from telling a good, believable story, and being a true character - is to be someone the audience will care about, even if you're playing a murderer or rapist.
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This is very true: for my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers'.
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Judge Roberts' civil rights record and views remained the most controversial and unexplained part of his record when the Judiciary Committee hearing concluded, just as his civil rights record and views had been the most controversial part of his record when the hearing began.
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There is the joy of being healthy and fair, but there is overall the beauty, the immense joy of being useful.
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I'm always very careful to make the distinction between music criticism and music journalism. A lot of people don't. But criticism doesn't require reporting. You can write criticism at home in your underwear. On the other hand, journalism takes legwork - you have to get out there and see things and talk to people.
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We agreed that it is not possible for ministers to order the judiciary around.
