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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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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You will always see big, chunky bags around me. I have always been fond of bags. Bags are extremely essential because I keep my books in them.
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Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
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I grew up in China, but I live in the U.S. and I want my children to understand what's going on over there. They ask me sometimes, 'Are we Chinese or Australians?' My family are in L.A., New York and China, and they have the freedom to go back and forth, which is really, really nice.
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Five minutes after we die, we'll know exactly how much we should have given rather than kept.
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I'm scared of the water, and I hate the sea. I'd be all right if it was clear and I could see what was underneath. But it's the not knowing what's there that freaks me out.
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My one fear is that tomorrow I may die without having come to know myself.
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Freedom. It's not something you go out and die for.
