J. A. Jance Quotes
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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Of course, we all watch James Bond with envy - knowing the U.S. government would never pay for the lifestyle he enjoys.
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Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.
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The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.
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The hair department on 'Game of Thrones' is incredible.
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To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.
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A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.
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By far, the best moment of my big league career was when I caught the last out at the World Series.
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I am neither going to Bollywood nor joining politics.
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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
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I guess Species was a movie made for me and hence I bagged the role. In fact even when acting, I never thought the outcome would be so good which I think it was! The entire role was a challenge. I was to be this strange yet sexy thing which was challenging!
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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I don't like to look typical.
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There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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Where is the politician who has not promised to fight to the death for lower taxes- and who has not proceeded to vote for the very spending projects that make tax cuts impossible?
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The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.
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Manhattan is less legit than it once was, for sure, but this is still the city that never sleep. It is also the city of ‘Behold the field in which I grow my fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it and see that it is barren.
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Baseball is the life.
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I think that playing characters far away from who I am as a person is a lot more fun and a lot more exciting, and you can play with it a lot more because it's not you and it's so far from you, so that's very liberating as far as that goes.
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It's a good feeling to have something to stand for in any part of your life. It's like personal integrity.
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my major form of exercise is jumping to conclusions.
