Leslie Jamison Quotes
Whenever we feel shame, it's a mark of some deep investment or deep internal struggle.
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I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I tell fans who ask me why I'm not doing comedy anymore that I'm a different person. I've grown and I've matured. I've made a transition to where I really want to be.
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As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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I don't feel that normal anymore because I get recognised, even when I'm just trying to have fun or going to get ice cream with my friends.
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I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?
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Going to so many book events keeps me connected with my readership while constantly reminding me that all the long hours at the drawing desk are worthwhile.
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Given the volume of PC sales and the way McAfee runs its operation, I imagine there must be thousands of phantom subscribers - folks who signed up once upon a time and left the software behind two or three computers ago.
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Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.
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THERE IS NEVER ANYTHING TO PRO-DUCE. In spite of all its materialist efforts, production remains a utopia. We can wear ourselves out in materializing things, in rendering them visible, but we will never cancel the secret. (p. 65)
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I couldn't think or eat nothin' unless it was Hank Williams, and I couldn't wait for his next record to come out. He had to be, really, the greatest.
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A big misconception is that a black hole is made of matter that has just been compacted to a very small size. That's not true. A black hole is made from warped space and time.
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In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!
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Whenever we feel shame, it's a mark of some deep investment or deep internal struggle.
