J. B. Jackson Quotes
It is place, permanent position in both the social and topographical sense, that gives us our identity.
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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I don't watch much television. My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he'd send me out on auditions and I'd be like, 'What's this show?' and he'd be like, 'It's literally the top show on television.' I wasn't allowed to watch TV as a kid.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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Nothing is less suspenseful than a threat that threatens the maker of the threat at least as much as the subject of the threat. Congress hasn't learned this yet, but America has learned it over and over.
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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I complained to my mother about wanting to look less like myself and more like my friends. My mother then gave me a lesson in embracing my differences and loving them despite what others said.
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
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My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
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I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.
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I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
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Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.
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I'm kind of a robot in a way. Or a Tron.
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You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.
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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
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I love to work out and really enjoy the outdoors. I like to immerse myself with sport-related activities and spending quality time with people. I find people to be very inspiring, and I get a lot of motivation from listening and interacting with them, sharing stories and similarities - and differences - in our lives, and learning from each other.
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It is place, permanent position in both the social and topographical sense, that gives us our identity.
