Jack Germond Quotes
For those of us who spent our careers competing with David Broder, the hardest thing to abide was the inevitable comparison. If someone said Jack Germond - or Jules Witcover or Walter Mears or whoever - 'is a pretty good political reporter,' the default response would be, 'but he's no David Broder.'
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
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I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?
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As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.
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How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
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I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.
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I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love to is a western, but no one has ever asked me to do that. Unfortunately they are very few and far between these days, but that is one type of film I'd love to do.
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On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
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You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one.
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The Bishop, as I have remarked, was not very dignified on all occasions, and sometimes acted in such a manner as would not have appeared well in public.
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I love 'Starship Troopers.' I've seen it ten times.
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I think that the biggest beauty essential is as simple as a good, full night's sleep.
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For those of us who spent our careers competing with David Broder, the hardest thing to abide was the inevitable comparison. If someone said Jack Germond - or Jules Witcover or Walter Mears or whoever - 'is a pretty good political reporter,' the default response would be, 'but he's no David Broder.'
