Eric Jacobson Quotes
In the beginning, I used to seek approval from others about my fashion choices. Now, I trust myself.
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I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.
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What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven't had very good modeling in submission.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.
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Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.
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We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.
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I like 'Glee' a lot. It's kind of like my guilty pleasure.
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Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit.
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More than any other art form I know of in America, country music speaks of the true relationship between the American male and the American female... Terrible and impossible.
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I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.
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I have busted more hippies' noses than all the narcs in the free world.
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To conflict journalists, a tiny, tight-knit tribe, tragedy is practically an occupational requirement: our work requires us to seek it out, measure it, contextualize it, and chronicle it.
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If I were to do a sequel, it would be with Sophie as a very old woman and The BFG the same, a bit like that 'Let the Right One' in film.
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I want one place I can go that is not going to be lewd, and I'm not sure there is anything left.
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New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed.
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The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.
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Idealizing Daddy is grand when you're five; it's crippling when you're twenty-five or thirty-five. For if you still believe in Daddy's miracles, you may not believe that you can make your own dreams come true. Worse, you may not even be able to formulate them without his guidance.
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We have to uphold a free press and freedom of speech - because, in the end, lies and misinformation are no match for the truth.
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I have been fortunate enough to see many places of this earth and most certainly a lot of art, but I would be more interested to see more of the natural wonders of the world.
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Crystals are living beings at the beginning of creation.
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In the beginning, I used to seek approval from others about my fashion choices. Now, I trust myself.
