Cleve Jones Quotes
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When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
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I want to be a major force.
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The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.
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I left my mark on 'Dark Shadows.' One day I was doing my lines perfectly from Act 3. Everyone else was doing Act 2.
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I fed my ego, but not my soul.
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Because many of us have been in game shows for some time, there's always someone around who can share a story of Johnny O or Jay Stewart that I never heard.
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I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.
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Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.
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No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
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I'm a father and I'm a husband and I care about what's happening on our streets.
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People are starved for the truth, and when something comes along that even looks like the truth, people will latch onto it because everything's so false.
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When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.
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It's funny, everything is so much easier when you do it yourself.
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It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to accept the view that the substratum of everything is of mental character. But no one can deny that mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience, and all else is remote inference - inference either intuitive or deliberate.
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To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others. We will not behave in foreign places so as to violate our rules and standards here at home, for we know that the trust which our Nation earns is essential to our strength.
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The modern dogma is comfort at any cost.
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You don't come into government thinking it is going to be easy.
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Early on my career, I figured out that I just have to write the book I have to write at that moment. Whatever else is going on in the culture is just not that important. If you could get the culture to write your book, that would be great. But the culture can't write your book.
Colson Whitehead -
It looks like you're going to have to put up with us for another four years.
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It's not about earning a paycheck, it's about doing something good that you believe in.
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I do believe that non-violent civil disobedience is a very important and useful tactic.
