Leslie Jamison Quotes
The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors and agents, with whom you share some language, and some sense of what makes literature worth reading.
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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.
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I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.
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I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the world, fact checkers can only play a small part in remedying the problem.
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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Some guys just slip under the radar.
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Well I'm still working on The Incredibles. So I'm going to take a little time off. I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve. I'm not ready to talk about them yet, but expect the unexpected.
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The most important advice you can give anyone about to appear on TV is incredibly prosaic - be yourself.
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The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.
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The impression sometimes created among the public is that scientists are working away in their labs, and maybe they're not always thinking about the implications of their work. But we are.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors and agents, with whom you share some language, and some sense of what makes literature worth reading.
