Jacob Weisberg Quotes

While 'The Wire' feels startlingly lifelike, it is not, in fact, a naturalistic depiction of ghetto life. That kind of realism better describes an earlier miniseries of Simon's, 'The Corner,' which was based on the book of the same title that he and Ed Burns wrote, set in the same Baltimore ghetto.

Jacob Weisberg

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We want young people to know what they believe, why they believe it. I believe America was built on the Judeo-Christian ethic; I want to see the nation return to the Judeo-Christian ethic.

Jerry Falwell

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The one thing I like about 'Playboy' is they don't have the anorexic look. The women are voluptuous. So I didn't really want to diet. I just wanted to tone up.

Jenny McCarthy

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I have a handful of tattoos that I really want to put on people that I can't find anyone to let me give them to.

Jemima Kirke

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I think touring is an important part of the life of an orchestra. Not only sharing with other audiences, but bringing that sense of family that you get back home. The sense of growing deeper into the music, of making it all sound like chamber music - that comes from being together on tour.

Andris Nelsons

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And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you.

John Irving

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I've never believed that Things Should Continue As They Are.

Robin Sloan

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I'm not really a sequel guy. I did 'Angels & Demons' after 'The Da Vinci Code,' because I like working with Hanks, and I felt it was a really different sort of world that we were visiting. That was, of itself, interesting.

Ron Howard

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You have to understand, I grew up in the shadow of the Safeco tower.

Mike McGavick

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It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself.

Michael Ondaatje

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It is worse to be irresolute than to be wrong.

William Strunk, Jr.

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Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

Thomas Paine

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Left ear, I wear four earrings. The four is symbolic of the four seasons, spring, winter, summer and fall, the four directions, north, east, south and west, the four gospel writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Mr. T

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