Jack Kevorkian Quotes
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With a first season, you never really know how viewers or the network are going to react to a show.
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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I knew that we were clicking when mimics started kidding my voice, I'll know that I'm on the way out when they stop doing their imitations.
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Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
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You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind.
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The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
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At Harvard, I got to meet and have dinner with Jamaica Kincaid. Just to have conversations with professors was absolutely amazing.
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We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.
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After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.
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I don't crave publicity, you know.
