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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As far as mental development is concerned, we should never be complacent. We can develop our minds infinitely - there is no limitation.
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I want a priest, a rabbi and a Protestant minister. I want to hedge my bets.
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I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.
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My dad read history, about a book a day, but only after he retired as a successful bank and insurance man.
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You presume to name those who have no name. We are pandemonium and disaster. We are the dancing, gibbering horror of the world.
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We agreed that it is not possible for ministers to order the judiciary around.
