Jack Lowden Quotes
I grew up on the stage, and there's no two ways about it: you only get one chance to do your bit.

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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them.
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San Francisco lags behind other communities in providing a vital, vibrant and ecologically sustainable urban canopy, as well as open space in the city.
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.
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Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
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I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become.
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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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Just because you have a piece of trash and you throw it away and it gets hauled away, it doesn't mean that it's not affecting someone else.
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Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.
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There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
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I grew up on the stage, and there's no two ways about it: you only get one chance to do your bit.