Jessica Katoff Quotes
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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Our suspicions are being confirmed that Nashi will serve as a cover for storm brigades that will use violence against democratic organisations.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.
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Food is fuel and not a solution to anything other than giving your body nutrients. I love chocolate like the next girl, but it's not going to change my situation.
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The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
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I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.
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My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
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The Green Hornet was a human superhero. And he didn't wear a clown costume. And he was a criminal - in the eyes of the law - and in the eyes of the criminal world.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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I'm not lying to myself like most people.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
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In 'A Poetics of Optics,' Equi writes that 'all images bank on alchemy.' This idea captures her fundamental sense of poetry as turning common material into something rare and valuable.
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My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.
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It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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There is a scale of virtues, and it is necessary, if one would mount the higher steps, to begin with the lowest; and the first virtue a man must acquire if he wishes to acquire the others, is that which the ancients called ἐγκράτεια or σωφροσύνη - i.e., self-control or moderation.
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Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us.
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Over the years, if you look at the films of people like Billy Wilder, Preston Sturges, Frank Capra, their supporting characters, even if it's a doorman with two lines, always seem three-dimensional. To me, that's a sign of good storytelling.
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I will never answer that question of what are the challenges I face. You speak it into existence, and I choose to use that air for other things.
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It is possible that a man could live twice as long if he didn't spend the first half of his life acquiring habits that shortens the other half.
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These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.
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You are a perfect balance of heaven and hell, a purgatory of passion and pain.
