M. J. Rose Quotes
Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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Being evil is easy.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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I received a call from Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum and head coach Eric Mangini. They asked me if I was ready to become a New York Jet. I quickly answered 'yes' and began to hug everyone at the table.
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I used to walk to Altman's on Saturdays for lunch at the Charleston Garden, which had a coconut cake that is still my favorite food in the world.
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The excitement you can get in classical concert is as big, in a different sense, as you can get when you go to the ice hockey or baseball game.
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All comedians are, in a way, anarchists. Our job is to make fun of the existing world.
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I flew into New York for the Raising Arizona audition, and we just started joking around.
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When I started writing I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the more confused, and for an artist I think that is quite a good thing: you allow in more of your instinctual self; your dreams, fantasies and memories. It's richer, in a way.
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Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.
