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It's like, whenever I do any kind of cover, if it's a jazz piece or pop cover, I want to honor the original and make sure that the bulk and the juice of what makes that so great is there, but take it to a different place.

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As far as working with actors, I feel very comfortable working in that aspect of directing.

Jim Rash

FeelComfortableWorkingFarI Feel

A search for truth seems to me to be full of pitfalls. We all have different understandings of what truth is, and we'll each believe - or we are in danger of each believing - that our truth is the one and only absolute truth, which is why I say it's full of pitfalls.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

TruthMeBelieveTruth IsSearch

Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.

John Burroughs

CommunicationBestManFeetPlant

Many years ago, I was a producer on a movie called 'My Dog Skip.' Willie Morris, the great southern writer, had written the book. We had adapted it and taken 17 years of his life and compressed it into one year.

John Lee Hancock

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People, certainly in the U.K., look down on screenwriting as an art form, but I love the discipline of it. Next to the bagginess of novel writing, it almost feels like a martial art.

Matt Haig

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I'm a writer. I've been a journalist for my whole adult life.

Stephen J. Dubner

LifeAdultWholeBeenWriter

I believe the more difficult the circumstances, the more people will be inclined to trust those in charge at the moment.

Tony Benn

MomentTrustPeopleBelieveWill

Here in Cameroon, football is our leading political party. It's football alone that that unites us, it's football alone that brings us good things - football is the window into our country - so we don't mess around with it.

Roger Milla

GoodAloneFootballGood ThingsMess

I've had years of psychiatry, and I ask about every six months - it's sort of like getting your oil checked - I ask, 'I'm not an actual narcissist, am I?' The learned men of psychiatry assure me that I meet none of the medical criteria.

Rob Lowe

MenMedicalMeMeetOilAsk

Voters are okay with you believing something they don't believe, as long as they think you genuinely believe it, and you believe it because you care about them.

Jason Kander

BelieveThinkCareLongYouOkay

Where we're living we have a certain amount of our profit every year it's like a percentage 5 or 7% or something like that that we set aside specifically for charity things.

Jon Fishman

CharityYearProfitLivingSomething

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

David Simon

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