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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I actually have never been to a gym. I haven't had time. I have been working for the last 25 years. I just don't have time to put on a little outfit and go to the gym and work out and clean up and come home.
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The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
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The possessions God allows us to have are intended for our use, not our enjoyment. Trying to squeeze something out of them that was never in them in the first place is a futile endeavor. A cow's udders, gently pressed, will yield sweet milk, nourishing and refreshing. Applying more and more pressure will not produce greater quantities of milk. We lose the good of material things by expecting too much from them. Those who try hardest to please themselves with earthly goods find the least satisfaction in them.
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We agreed that it is not possible for ministers to order the judiciary around.
