Jack Black Quotes
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.
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Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
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Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn't do well, and the actor walks away with most of the credit if the film does well.
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I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'
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I love red or deep purple lips for events.
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I'm so used to changing time zones that I can sleep at any time. I'm rarely ever tossing and turning - if I am, it's really a big deal.
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You have to treat Hollywood like it's your boyfriend - he's there all the time.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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The groups that have awarded them are all a little different. It's a little hard to single out any one for that, but I think the dedication of this building would have to go toward the top of the list.
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Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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To write a book about improvisation is partly a contradiction in terms. Improvisation is spontaneous. It's in the moment.
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In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel.
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My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a popular class called Family Living, the precursor to Sociology, which he eventually taught. My grandmother was a beloved one-room school teacher at Knob School, near Sonora in Larue County, Ky.
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I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see.
