Jack Green Quotes
Recognizing masterpieces is the job of the critic, not writing competent reviews of the unimportant.
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.
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Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.
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When you work for something, you appreciate it more. So what are y'all going to do with all the opportunities you inherited that you didn't have to work for?
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When anything goes, it's women who lose.
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'Elizabethtown' was a movie made for all the right reasons, and people who connect with the movie really connect to it. It's not the biggest group of people ever, but I still really believe in 'Elizabethtown.' It wasn't, like, a savage blow.
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I think it's as popular as it ever has been and it continues to grow as it does all around the world.
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It's only five rappers out of Atlanta who bussin and I'm one of 'em; the other four you know who you are; but if you gotta think twice (well) shawty ya ain't nice; regardless of ya publishin' deal ya can't write
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My own time is passing fast enough without some national game to help it along.
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This is a bond nothing can ever loosen. What I have lost: what I possess forever.
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Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls.
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How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.
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I've got so many mountains to climb and goals to conquer. I've got so many scars I want to leave on the planet. I just feel like I'm not there yet. I feel like I am just getting started.
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We can open our hearts to God, but only with Divine help.
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I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
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The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.
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Unanimity makes me itchy. It almost always hides a grave. I started digging.
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In every art we are always obliged to return to the accepted means of expression, the conventional language of the art. What is a black-and-white drawing but a convention to which the beholder has become so accustomed that with his mind's eye he sees a complete equivalent in the translation from nature?
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Scotland has never ceased to amaze the world with its forward vision, bold action and great educational institutions. Nothing makes me more proud than to promote this wonderful land with all its richness and diversity wherever I go.
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Recognizing masterpieces is the job of the critic, not writing competent reviews of the unimportant.
