Leslie Jamison Quotes

It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or plot point that always nagged, even if you couldn't admit to yourself that it did.

Leslie Jamison

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Just because you did something once doesn't mean anything. You have to be willing in your heart to begin again every day. The minute I'm not willing to do that, I will retire.

Jimmy Iovine

HeartDayYouEvery DayJust Because

You have to win games by scoring points, of course, so that's important. But when you're having nights against a good defensive team, you have to win in a different manner. You have to win a defensive-type game.

Jerry West

GoodTeamWinGameYouImportant

Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It's seen from the point of view of the great white savior, and rarely is the perspective of the slave a part.

Jeffrey Wright

EyesGreatPerspectiveStoryView

Collaboration is a multilane highway, going in all directions. If there isn't reciprocity, it fails, and it's unsatisfying.

Jeffrey Wright

CollaborationHighwayGoingFails

My dream was to have my own advertising agency by the time I was 30, and that was before I got into movies.

John G. Avildsen

TimeAdvertisingDreamMoviesMy Own

Obviously, people who commit crimes should be punished. Even people who steal socks and 'Snow White' videos should probably do time if they have priors, especially serious priors. But the punishment has to fit the crime, and the standard has to be the same for everyone.

Matt Taibbi

SnowTimePeopleWhiteSocksCrime

Most of the stories I read are about my Hollywood pedigree.

Michael Douglas

HollywoodReadMostStoriesAbout

The most important consideration I have is I want my legislative shop to have a functional office suite that is conducive to getting their work accomplished.

Steve Womack

WorkImportantWantOfficeMost

In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?

Roy H. Williams

BoredomYouChooseMarketingWant

It used to be that phrases and lines would come into my head, often many of them in a period of five days or a week, and maybe I didn't know what I was talking about, but the words had a kind of heaviness or deliciousness to them.

Donald Hall

WordsTalkingWeekKnowKindHead

There's a sort of magic and music to comedy. Some words, some numbers even, are funnier than others. A Caramac bar, for instance, is funnier than a Milky Way.

David Walliams

MusicWordsComedyMagicNumbers

Many people feel that unions aren't militant enough for them and don't do anything.

Boots Riley

PeopleFeelEnoughUnionsAnything

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