Michael Patrick Jann Quotes
And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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At first, I was hesitant when it came to giving autographs, thinking that I am not even worth giving one. But slowly I got over that phase.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
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People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
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When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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There is a racist attack against Muslims and Arabs, Algerians, Moroccans, and Tunisians in France.
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Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
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I always thought that if I was popular I must be doing something wrong.
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I took it upon myself to paint a better picture of rural life and what it is all about.
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You don't contest shots without expending energy. You don't get deflections - unless you walk into one every now and then - without expending energy. These are the things in basketball you have to really want to do.
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Its very essence is trust upon Him and His sin-expiating and life-purchasing merits. Its very essence consists in its self-emptying, self-denying, Christ-grasping energy.
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There is a collective force rising up on the earth today, an energy of the reborn feminine... This is a time of monumental shift, from the male dominance of human consciousness back to a balanced relationship between masculine and feminine.
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And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money.
