Jack Bowman Quotes
I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
-
Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
-
I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
-
There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
-
Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
-
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
-
The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
-
While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
-
There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
-
The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.
-
We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
-
I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.
-
I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
-
I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.
-
'Breakfast at Tiffany's' isn't a great movie because Audrey Hepburn is brilliant and everyone else isn't. It's a great movie because everybody is fascinating, and she is at the center of it being amazing.
-
We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
-
Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
-
I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
-
My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
-
Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.
-
I was warned not to do it. Actors who play Jesus are supposed to have a hard time getting other roles to follow, but I felt this was a myth. After all, how can you be typecast as Christ?
-
But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that's maybe what helped me to get the part.
-
My first-ever role was the king in 'The Princess and the Pea.'
-
I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion.
