Jack Finney Quotes
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The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down.
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I realize that things happen for a reason.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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Many people focus on my power and talk about my power, but I have many more qualities in the ring. I like to surprise everyone.
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We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.
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I'm kind of a private person.
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In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
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'SNL' can be a stressful environment, and I am panicking constantly, but I guess I keep it pretty internal.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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Soderbergh is a very respectable director that manages to have an incredible amount of freedom in a system that doesn't allow anybody to be free as he is on a set. And he will jump from 'Solaris' to 'Ocean's Twelve' and 'Thirteen.'
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Like the average American that I hang out with, and like my father before me, I raised all my children to respect tools and use them wisely and safely.
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If you can draw something from my life that helps, more power to you.
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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
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I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
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My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine - he's a genius.
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Stumbling is not falling.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
