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J. K. Simmons Quotes

We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: January 9, 1955

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Think Generation Being Who Kids

If he's chasing the full restoration of his legacy, he's chasing something that he really can't get.

Legacy Something Get Chasing He His

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Society Others Talk Misunderstood

The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way.

Great Writing Book Situation Way

Sometimes I relax on defense and not understand I can't do that. Night in and night out, you're playing some of the best point guards in the world. That's something I'm continuing to work on and continue to develop my lower body, get quicker and more explosive.

Work Best Relax World Night Body

If we repealed all the laws of the world marriage would still exist.

Marriage World Exist Laws Would

I wasn't really driven to be an actor or anything, but in college I decided to study acting, much to my parents' disappointment. I attended Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers where Bill Esper was, and that is where I really got hooked on the art of acting, and, almost, the chemistry of acting.

Art School Parents Disappointment

There is a lot of pretty horrific stuff that happens, and I don't usually get those kinds of characters who get to go to those places.

Go Places Pretty Get Stuff Happens

When I first started writing, I wrote really sad, emotional songs which were all slow.

Sad Writing Slow First Emotional

I know my father believed and my mother believed in and supported the suffrage movement, and I remember my mother taking me to suffrage meetings held in the home of a Quaker family that lived not far from us.

Family Father Mother Home Me Know

Everybody has fallen down or been disappointed in love. Where you truly shine is when you get back up.

Love Shine You Back Down Back Up

People tell me being a perfectionist is a fault, but I find that's what drives me.

People Me Find Fault Tell Being

I have dreamt of being an author since the age of 14, and writing about my experiences has always been a part of digesting an experience and sharing it with others.

Age Experience Writing Sharing Been

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