Jack Ramsay Quotes
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I endeavor to make the most of everything.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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Playing music is a beautiful thing. But listening to music is just as great.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
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Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.
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While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office.
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
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Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
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I think it's really important whilst you're a young actor to try as many new things as possible... to try and do something you haven't necessarily been seen doing before.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.
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Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
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The writers who have been serious about recreating American literature have always been far and few between. What we do have at the end of the 20th century that we didn't have at the beginning, at that time of the Lost Generation of rich white boys, is a mixture. We're now getting gay writers of color, let's say, and women of color being published. This is unprecedented.
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I came to New York late; I was already past 30.
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I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
