Edward P. Jones Quotes

I never like to put myself in the stories; in 'Lost in the City,' there are fourteen stories, and there's only one, 'The First Day,' about a little girl going to school, that has anything to do with me.

Edward P. Jones

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• Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
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• Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Culture
  • Lost
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• If you meet a girl, you meet a girl. It's normal, so if you exchange numbers, whatevs, it's cool.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Girl
  • Cool
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• Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
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• I was at art school that had quite a celebrated film course as well. I tried for that film course when I was 18, but they said I was too young. I tried this audio and visual design course instead. Two years later, I reapplied for that higher course, but they said I was still too young and to try in five years.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • School
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• I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.

  

  Edmonia Lewis
  • Thought
  • Learn
  • Rome

• The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Great
  • Girl
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• I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Time
  • God
  • School

• When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• There is no reason why any public school district in our state should be on a four-day school week. If anything, we should be extending the school year.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • School
  • Why
  • Year

• The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Time
  • School
  • Understand

• I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • School
  • High
  • Start

• The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • School
  • Education

• I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

  

  Barry White
  • Music
  • School
  • High

• Basically, I left Northern Telecom after 7.5 years of being in one company after school. And then, I ended up in a series of start-ups. The first of those was a company called Sitech, and they were in local area networks.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Up
  • School
  • Company

• Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Truth
  • Lost
  • Hand

• Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • People
  • Interesting
  • City

• I was always the smallest role in community theater and school plays. I always had two lines - I was the kid that came on stage and said one thing and then left, and that was my part for the play.

  

  Haley Lu Richardson
  • School
  • Community
  • Play

• I'm a father of four so whenever I'm not working my kids have their different sports, or plays, or school performances, so I don't do a whole lot of other stuff besides being a dad.

  

  Christopher Judge
  • Different
  • School
  • Kids

• I know, when I was in film school, some of my films were silly, but a lot of them were more dramatic. I don't think I intentionally set out to do comedy stuff. I guess that's a consequence of coming up working with David O. Russell and skewing toward those sensibilities.

  

  Jeff Baena
  • Up
  • School
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• Enlightened legislation or enlightened social activity of whatever kind, does play into the hands of people with agendas of their own. If you legalize euthanasia, you provide a field day for people who like killing other people.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Play
  • Hands

• I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Way
  • Son
  • Round

• I never like to put myself in the stories; in 'Lost in the City,' there are fourteen stories, and there's only one, 'The First Day,' about a little girl going to school, that has anything to do with me.

  

  Edward P. Jones
  • School
  • Girl
  • Lost