Jack Keane Quotes
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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I was hanging out with no one under 21. I thought that if I really wanted to fit in I had to... show them that I was in a way just as adult as they were, 'cause I could hold my own just as well as they could, if not better.
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I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.
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I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.
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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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You can be a rapper born and raised in go-go music, violence, drugs, crack, Reagonomics, and still, if you hear 'Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go,' you're going to find a way to hum along. Guilty pleasures? It don't matter. Sue me - I like the song. To dance to it is another matter.
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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
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I remember going up and doing 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' with Paul Simon, Santana playing up there with us.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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I never studied anything about film technique in school. Eventually, I realized that cinema and theater are not so different: from the gut to the heart to the head of a character is the same journey for both.
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Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.
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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
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The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've written a lot of stories. I've got dozens of stories I've written that no one's ever seen.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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I have so much respect for people that can do it [tredmill running], I wish I could because it looks really cool and really fun.
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Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke.
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I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
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Second Law of Committo-Dynamics: The less you enjoy serving on committees, the more likely you are to be pressed to do so.
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Historically, aggression unanswered has led to more aggression.
