Howard Jacobson Quotes
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It's better to do a film that works.
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Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.
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My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.
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But yet I don't think I should be labeled just a black quarterback, because it's bigger things in this sport that need to be accomplished.
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See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
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I'm not a Facebook/Twitter gal, but my husband is.
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Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
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I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.
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I got beat up sometimes in the girls' bathroom.
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I believe in the sanctity of marriage.
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I'm very active, wild woman.
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As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.
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It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.
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I've never been one to dwell on reverses.
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A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to be friends when everyone's 18.
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Managers today come up against a few more communication barriers. One is the pressure of time. Listening carefully takes time, and managers have little of that to spare. In today’s business culture especially, with its emphasis on speed, already pressed managers may give short shrift to the slower art of one-on-one communication.
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Our age is an age of moderate virtue And moderate vice
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I'd just love to see a great love story, and nobody makes them anymore. You have great actresses like Cate Blanchett - she's fabulous in Pushing Tin and Elizabeth - and you don't use them.
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Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.
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I have more control of the material if I produce. I can be much more active in choosing the writer, shaping the script, casting and editing the film.
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Of all the places I've been, India is the one that's on the top of my list to return to.
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'...Cocaine. The stuff is everywhere.'
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There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.
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I'm a Jewish Jane Austen.
