Jack Layton Quotes
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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I think, in general, when you're doing comedy, you're having a good time regardless of the comedy table tennis that you're playing. I think you want that, too: you're rooting for two characters to be together, and you should feel that even when they're angry at each other, they're still in synch with each other.
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
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Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.
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I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
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In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
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If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there's The Simpsons, and then there's everything else.
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Any political party that includes the word 'democratic' in its name, isn't.
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Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My music was the blues.
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On the average, I don't spend more than 15 minutes in the car - to go to the golf course or the gym. And that's the only time I listen to the radio.
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Doctors have throughout time made fortunes on killing their patients with their cures. The difference in psychiatry is that it is the death of the soul.
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Well, I say it's time to take Stephen Harper to the woodshed!
