Edward P. Jones Quotes
There are those who write because they believe they have something so marvelous that it will make them famous and wealthy, a lauded commodity who will be invited to a lifetime of cocktail parties.
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I have a physical background. It's not like I'm a kung fu master, but my real training was dance school, and through that, I move to this thing called Capruera that I used in 'Ocean's 12.' I can pretend that I can do a lot of things, but then, I don't really master anything.
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I never really learned photography.
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Love is a strange emotion. It is ever evolving. Lust is transient. With time, one realizes that love and togetherness are two different things. Very few people are lucky enough to experience the two emotions simultaneously.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'
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Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.
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My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.
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While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.
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It's great fun to play with a really good band.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.
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We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths.
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Innovation is strict common sense with wild imagination.
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Some have said that 'Frankenstein' is a story of a bad parenting giving rise to a troubled child.
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The biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself.
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It's very hard to be OK with who you are and not care what other people think of you. Believe me, I know.
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In America, I don't know how much longer the environment is going to exist. I sort of strongly believe that we're in danger.
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There are those who write because they believe they have something so marvelous that it will make them famous and wealthy, a lauded commodity who will be invited to a lifetime of cocktail parties.
