Jonathan Galassi Quotes

The FSG story starts to lose its fairy-tale aura when filthy lucre invades the sacred enclosure, as it did ubiquitously in the every-man-for-himself Reagan era.

Jonathan Galassi

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There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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If I'm going to have baked goods in the morning, the rule is that I have to make them myself.

Jenny Slate

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No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths.

Jena Malone

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I've still got a twinkle in me.

Robert Plant

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I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I'm trying to pull out of the ground that doesn't want to come out? I know I'll win.

Matthew McConaughey

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One of the things that Americans, as a multiracial society, feel is a tremendous sensitivity to racial comments of all kinds.

Michael Crichton

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I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important.

Tony Goldwyn

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'Malcolm X' is my favorite Spike Lee movie.

Ron Stallworth

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One of the things is that the good intentions of Prohibition, from reading over the years and from becoming obsessed with the research of gangs in New York City, seems to have allowed crime figures at the time, like Luciano, Capone, Torrio and Rothstein, to organize to become more powerful, which pulled all the way through until the '70s.

Martin Scorsese

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I've always had quite long canines. It's a very strange thing. My parents don't have them.

Luke Evans

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I think the Social Office is really the office where East meets West. For those that don't know, the East side is typically the First Lady's side of the house. The West side is typically the President's side of the house.

Desiree Rogers

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Most actors come from the streets, and their rise to fame is guided by a natural anger. It was harder to find that rage coming from a gentle background.

Christopher Plummer

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