Jack Irons Quotes
I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.
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Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.
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Angulo presents a difficult challenge because he's a fighter who can punch and take a great punch.
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I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.
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If we took information only from sources with which we agreed on all issues, we would be left with merely quoting ourselves, and we would miss a great deal of truth.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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OKCupid's model is almost entirely based on advertising, which is the way most online media is monetized these days, whether it's the news or whether it's sports, and we think online dating is going to evolve in the exact same way.
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Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Americans are already paying the price for record heat waves, dirty air, and an unstable climate. We need to fight these threats with every weapon we have, and the electricity industry has to do its fair share.
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Ill-fitted T-shirts stretched over a gut are my pet hate. And if the colour's faded - ugh.
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It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.
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I can't believe that I've written my best work yet. If I believed that, then I wouldn't bother releasing music anymore.
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Political criticism is our enemies' best friend.
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I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
