Jack Gould Quotes
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I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
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You got me: I do Pilates. I love Pilates because we do very specific training in soccer for the same six or seven muscles, but we neglect so many other muscles. So when I do Pilates, it helps get all the rest of the muscles in shape and gets them working together.
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I can barely turn on my computer!
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Singing is something I can do, but it's not my first passion.
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When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.
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I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.
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I never was a popular kid in class.
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My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.
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Portraying visual impairment is difficult. I can see what's going on, but I have to act like I can see nothing. And this can be quite a challenge.
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The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.
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I'm happiest when I can just be a director and watch.
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I love my body. And, I'm always working out. I'm an exercise freak, be it cardio, weights, t'ai chi or yoga.
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I'm not going to get into the writer's skills or what he was trying to portray because that's not fair. I can only say what I felt was trying to be portrayed there.
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I'd done 'Peter Pan' in a little pre-K class or whatever.
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It was really fun working with Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz on set.
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I can unite the people of Israel, so I won't speak about controversial issues, which divide the people.
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When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.
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I find it hard to talk and say things, but I can always sing about them.
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There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question have lived relatively comfortable, middle class lives. They function perfectly well in the world, but you can imagine, given a nasty parent, or a prolonged bout of unemployment, how their potential for craziness might have been realized.
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I get really flowery and verbose in my adult books, but I don't think I dumb down my Y.A. It's just cleaner and more snappy. And the adult books have multiple points-of-view. In my Y.A., it's always third person from the main character's perspective.
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Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?
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When men make gods, there is no God!
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People are intimately bound up with the diversity of life on Earth.
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I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half.
