Eddie Charles Jones Quotes
We're an unselfish team. When you move the ball, you get the best shot. The ball is getting into the right people's hands at the right time.
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?
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Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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See, Ebola, like all threats to humanity, it's fueled by mistrust and distraction and division. When we build barriers amongst ourselves, and we fight amongst ourselves, the virus thrives. But unlike all threats to humanity, Ebola is one where we're actually all the same. We're all in this fight together.
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
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We encourage the growth of women's hockey.
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My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.
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We have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Nolan has the strangest affect on people. You know, I think there's something very sad and little boy about him, but at the same time the way he goes about everything is so awkward and obnoxious. He can never say the right thing, you know? And I think if he just didn't try so hard and calmed down, people might actually like him a bit more!
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So many people are accustomed to written information that you really have to have a few more bells and whistles in this day and age.
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NED is talking about through-putting this energy out to the vicinity of Boston then taking a northern route up to Nova Scotia and then exporting it, so they're not talking about giving us any local benefits at all.
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We're an unselfish team. When you move the ball, you get the best shot. The ball is getting into the right people's hands at the right time.
