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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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.
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But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.
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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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Sometimes," I ventured, "it doesn't occur to boys that their mother was ever young and pretty. . . I couldn't stand it if you boys were inconsiderate, or thought of her as if she were just somebody who looked after you. You see I was very much in love with your mother once, and I know there's nobody like her.
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Recognizing masterpieces is the job of the critic, not writing competent reviews of the unimportant.
