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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I crave attention and adventure.
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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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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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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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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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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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One of the myths about Dad was that he was mean. That simply wasn't true. I always found him generous to a fault but he wasn't reckless with his money, which was rather rare in Hollywood. He'd grown up with nothing and he wasn't about to fritter it all away.
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When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you can for those voices.
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I was telling stories before I could write. I like to tell stories, and I like to talk to things. If you]ve read fairy tales, you know that everything can talk,from trees to chairs to tables to brooms. So I grew up thinking that, and I turned it into stories.
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If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy where it's not there, and I reconstruct it so that that voice is the dominant voice in the poem.
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The piano is where everything starts and ends. Everything is based off of it. If you understand that, you wind up understanding a lot more in all other instruments. For me, it had always been something important to try and learn.
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I do believe that non-violent civil disobedience is a very important and useful tactic.
