Michael Patrick Jann Quotes

It was a wealthy family, and they heard me talk about movies, and they told me I should go into movies. That's the benefit of hanging out with rich people; they have no sense of what is or isn't possible.

Michael Patrick Jann

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 15, 1970

Topics

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I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more visible there, and the dramatic tension is heightened.

Joanna Trollope

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A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.

John B. Keane

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I have a storage unit, as I moved out of a bigger house into a smaller house in L.A. I put all my stuff in a storage unit, where I have the most amazing collection of bad paintings, which took me 10 years to put together.

Jennifer Coolidge

TogetherAmazingMeBadHouseOut

It took me years to find a program that kept me in shape: Gyms felt intimidating, and women's magazines seemed tailored for toning the bodies of already trim white women.

Jenna Wortham

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When you have an emergency, there is the urge to do whatever it takes to see people get assistance.

Meles Zenawi

PeopleYouEmergencySeeWhatever

To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do.

Maya Angelou

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We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves.

Smokey Robinson

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I dropped out of school; I got fired from my job. Those were my roughest moments, but I always knew through it that I was going to be great.

Tory Lanez

GreatJobSchoolMomentsAlwaysOut

I've chosen all my films very carefully. I know that I've had better parts in some films than in others. But the films I do are the ones I want to see when I read the screenplays. I guess you can basically say that I've just done things I loved when I read them.

Mary Steenburgen

LovedBetterYouKnowDoneWant

My job is not to analyze my career. But I am proud of the amount of work I've done and the amount of commitment I've given to it. That makes me proud.

Martin Short

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I'm just basically spillin' out my emotions to the world. 'Cause rap is about emotion. And I want you to feel what I'm feelin', 'cause that's what it's all about.

Ludacris

WorldFeelYouEmotionsWantOut

My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen.

Jonny Lang

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