Gayl Jones Quotes
When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your connections as a human being.
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I'm not a sun person.
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Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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I don't think about records.
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I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well.
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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
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I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obsessed. I used to read them in one night.
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Here lies W. C. Fields. I would rather be living in Philadelphia.
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My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.
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I'm convinced that what kids need today are parents - not buddies. They need someone who will exercise mature judgment.
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The first TV show I worked on was with the guys from 'Little Britian,' Matt Lucas and David Walliams, who did a show in 1995 I directed, 'Mash and Peas.'
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It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.
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I have 'Friday.' I have 'Dinner For Schmucks.' And I have 'John Wick.' There are others too I can't think of now, but those are my go-to movies.
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I spend... twenty times more for you people than any other commercial I've ever made. You are such pests! Now what is it you want? In your... depths of your ignorance, what is it you want? Whatever it is you want, I can't deliver, 'cause I just don't see it.
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I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.
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I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic.
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The treaty was not worth the paper on which it was written.
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When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your connections as a human being.
