Jack Lowden Quotes
I had the benefit of there being no stigma attached to the arts. My brother's a ballet dancer, and he never came up against anything.
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Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.
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Expenditures rise to meet income.
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Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
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We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.
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No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book has been in the world for a while. Perhaps bookstore buyers will be indifferent. Perhaps it will be lost on store shelves. Perhaps there's another book or two out there using the same or a similar photo.
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I enjoy Saturday night racing.
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Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.
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I don't care about revenues.
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I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.
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People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.
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At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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As my other obligations are beginning to take an inordinate amount of time, I have asked to step down as WMG's board chairman, effective January 31, 2012. However, I will remain a director of the company and in that way, continue my association with Warner Music and its extraordinary people.
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Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.
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My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.
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I've never considered myself to be a fashionista type of guy.
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
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I definitely tell things at arm's length but that is conscious. No part of me wants everybody to know what's going on.
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I had the benefit of there being no stigma attached to the arts. My brother's a ballet dancer, and he never came up against anything.
