Michael Patrick Jann Quotes
If you blithely do what you do and you're good at what you do, and try to be a decent person, you can succeed.
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There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use, it'll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It'll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.
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A president can't go to every memorial service.
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Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
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Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.
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I'd seen 'The Sopranos,' but I wasn't a faithful viewer because I can't handle it.
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Teaching sometimes seems like not one profession, but every profession. We ask them to be doctor and diplomat, calf-herder, map-maker, wizard and watchman, electricians of the mind.
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Si eres bueno con éste, con aquél dirán que eres bueno. Si eres bueno con todos, nadie dirá que eres bueno.
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Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
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One of the things that I try to be conscious about in crafting a song is the concept of bringing it home. I like to bring it somewhere familiar, someplace that people feel it's resolved, it's settled.
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I was always a little insecure. I had brothers that played football, so I was just a straight-up tomboy for a minute. I didn't know makeup and hair stuff. My friends had to tell me what a straightener was. I didn't know fashion or any of that until the label gave me a stylist.
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He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him all venial sins which he may have committed up to that hour.
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Things like that become a blur - shot at some soundstage, somewhere - that's as much as I can remember.
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The other main difference between film and television is that you have the opportunity to flush out a character, over a longer period of time. Whereas with a film, you're confined to two or three hours, or whatever it may be.
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What remarkable strength is shown by the person who can lay aside personal prejudices and work without friction with a group of individuals with whom he or she is not in accord on many subjects.
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Here is the most telling fact: you wish to possess me. Here is another fact: I loved you and let you think you could.
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Rob Lowe, who I thought was really good in the movie [ Bad Influence], had his performance overshadowed by this sort of tabloid approach to him and the movie.
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Chronic dissatisfaction is how you sense that you are living a lie.
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I learned the hard way that not only do you not have to be superwoman, but it's better not to be and not to try to be. What I would like to be is just a good person - someone who tries her best and puts her best foot forward.
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I want you. I know you tried to find.
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I want to create a management company for people like me so that they don't have to give up the way they present themselves, they just have someone to help them keep their business afloat.
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It was a failure of citizenship of the American people that the Bush cabal was allowed to invade Iraq. Thus, every U.S. citizen who is not doing everything in their power to end this illegal and immoral occupation as quickly as possible is complicit with the war crimes being committed in Iraq on a daily basis.
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One atom is as purposeful as our planet. What is in one is in the whole.
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If you blithely do what you do and you're good at what you do, and try to be a decent person, you can succeed.
