Jeanne Marie Laskas Quotes

As a closeted gay man, Jim McGreevey lived a life of presentation, a gay man portraying a straight man.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

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I think Dr. King would be pleased to see the number of elected officials of color - African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and progressive whites.

John Lewis

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Tisch has a great film program and a great acting program, but they are segregated; you don't really intertwine. My peers knew I liked acting, so they'd be like, 'Go get that guy Gubler. He'll be in your student film.' I was in the same building. I became their go-to guy. So I left NYU having been in probably one thousand short films.

Matthew Gray Gubler

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In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

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When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was.

Steve Martin

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I burn with no causes.

Tom Stoppard

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If a currency is to become a growing, an increasing reserve currency, there has to be not only a demand for it there has to be a supply of it.

Robert C. Solomon

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The soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent's sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong.

Mitt Romney

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There are directors you never, ever want to get close to. Lubitsch was one. Outside of the work, I don't think I ever said five words to him. Mamet was pretty much the same thing. His mind is working all the time.

Don Ameche

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The people I always loved listening to had a little bit of dirt under their fingernails because they had done some living and had these stories to talk about.

Dierks Bentley

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Cynicism is the easiest of all reactions, right? But it's also so disappointing and self-defeating.

Chris Hadfield

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Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print.

Clive Sinclair

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After working for a while, I realized that acting was only satisfying about 30 percent of what interested me about the filmmaking process. Somewhere around age seventeen, I started to realize that if I'm very particular about the people I work with, then I can have the best sort of master class possible.

Brady Corbet

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