Stu Jackson (Stuart Wayne Jackson) Quotes
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The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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Business today consists in persuading crowds.
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Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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I've never played a Dane in a movie. I've had offers to be in Danish movies, including for some good directors, but I either had a job at the time or, when I was available, the movie just didn't happen. Hopefully someday I'll do one.
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I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
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Polka dots are fabulous.
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After so many books and so many years of writing, I have a good idea of my strengths and weaknesses. I love the process of writing and, if I allowed myself, I would write far too much every day. One weakness which I've struggled to overcome is my tendency to having my characters ruminate for pages.
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I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
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Under the Constitution, giving 'aid and comfort' to a wartime enemy can lead to a charge of treason.
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I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future.
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I saw Islam as the correct way to live, and I chose to try to live that way.
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In the 1970s, New York City avoided bankruptcy because wise political leaders like Gov. Hugh L. Carey believed both in strong labor unions and robust banks and companies.
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Births to illegal immigrants now account for nearly one out of every ten births in the United States.
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I work in waves because I'm impatient. It has to be done. I take liberties.
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It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might both hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.
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The course of Nature is the art of God.
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The bandstand is an incredible space. It is really a sacred space. One of the things that is really sacred about it is that you have no opportunity to think about the future, or the past.
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Print-on-demand publishing is the new farm system for new voices in fiction. Authors who have compelling things to say, who can market their stories in compelling ways, will succeed.
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You can tell a lot about a person by who his or her heroes are.
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Mitt Romney's energy policy is a relic of the 19th century. We need a 21st century plan. The fate of the planet is at stake.
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I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.
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