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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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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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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Chronic dissatisfaction is how you sense that you are living a lie.
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I pour my blood, sweat, and tears into a movie. What I always look for is a message and a social consciousness: a relevance to what's happening in our world.
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Are not gross bodies and light convertible into one another; and may not bodies receive much of their activity from the particles of light which enter into their composition? The changing of bodies into light, and light into bodies, is very conformable to the course of Nature, which seems delighted with transmutations.
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There's a throne in each life big enough for only one. Christ may be on that throne, or money may be. But both cannot occupy it.
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Never has our nation , or our world, stood on the precipice of adversity in such dire need of men answering the cry to rule well.
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I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.
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One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]
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There are players there that you wished you could have on your squad. . . . I had some tough conversations today.
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Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in their pregnant causes mixed/ Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,/ Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain/ His dark materials to create more worlds,--/ Into this wild Abyss the wary Fiend/ Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while,/ Pondering his voyage; for no narrow frith/ He had to cross.
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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.
