Jeff Giles Quotes

When salaries skyrocket, budgets skyrocket, and then rigor mortis sets in: moviemakers turn out formulaic junk in an effort to hedge their bets.

Jeff Giles

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I loved the playfulness of fashion. I think maybe that's why I became an actress. You put on one outfit and feel one way, and another one will make you feel another way. Clothes are a wonderful tool.

Melissa McCarthy

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As a civilian not playing sport, to get that sense of real belonging and feeling how you are progressing through the day is what I loved and miss.

Matthew Hayden

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Actions have consequences.

Tom Cotton

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Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.

Rumi

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I'm talking about science on the leading edge, where it's not clear which way things are going be cause we don't know, and I'm dealing with areas which we don't know about.

Rupert Sheldrake

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I don't think I've ever had a conversation with a comedian who stole except for when it's been in anger.

Matt Besser

AngerThinkConversationBeenWho

I worked at the White House in the early Reagan administration at a time when the deficit rocket really started to take off.

Christopher Buckley

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King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

Constance Baker Motley

KingLegalDisobedienceAwayCivil

The weird thing about my relationship with Reince is we were pretty good friends when I was a political donor writing checks to the RNC. But once I was about to enter the administration, for whatever reason, it was a little more adversarial.

Anthony Scaramucci

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My father is an architect, so I often think like a designer or an architect. I remember when I was admiring buildings, I would look up at them and see this perspective and this awesome power of the monument in front of me.

Platon

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I'm interested in characters. I love them, and I love to write them.

Sebastian Lelio

LoveWriteInterestedCharacters

I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.

Sebastian Thrun

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