Jack Bowman Quotes
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It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.
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If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
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For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
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The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
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Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
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Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.
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In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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Love, and do what you like.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?
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Throughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word 'school' - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning 'leisure.'
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It feels that way when I'm doing a play, absolutely. On film and television, it's more complicated than that I think, and when you start to add the business into the mix, and the industry into the mix, it doesn't maintain it's purity. That's something that's inevitable and unavoidable, but that's why I try to do plays as much as I possibly can.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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I just wrote a really cool script. It's called "One Track Mind." It's an origin story about the most successful and the most foul-mouthed, outrageous songwriter in history.
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I think a generation ago, dads went to work, they came home, and they had their dinner, had a drink, and then went to bed. I don't know what it was like in your house, but that is how it was in mine. I think it is cool to have the dads in the trenches and doing the real parenting work.
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Freedom. It's not something you go out and die for.
