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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Teaching was my first job after leaving university. It was a challenge, but I enjoyed it. Some of the kids were disruptive, but I could deal with it because I was only 24 at the time, and my own school memories were still fresh.
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Civilization consists in giving something an unfitting name, then dream about the result. And indeed the false name and the real dream create a new reality. The object really becomes another, because we turned it into another one. We manufacture realities.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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I know there's a consciousness energy that operates completely independent of the physical body you inhabit, that maintains... awareness after the body's gone.
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Whenever black women have a point, they're characterized as angry black women, and therefore the thing they're talking about is no longer of importance because they have to deal with them being overly emotional or something. I recognize that people who respond negatively to what I have to say aren't at a place yet where they are able to learn ... And it's exactly what I'm trying to fight.
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I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
