"Television's very much a writer's medium, as it probably should be, but if you're not the writer, then as the performer, you defer to that. It's just kind of how it's constructed. Is there some leeway? Yeah. But I also don't want to come across as a jerk."

-- Jim Gaffigan

#Television Quotes #Want Quotes #Kind Quotes

“Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.”
“Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.”
“Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.”
“I sat at the foot of a huge tree, a statue of the night, and tried to make an inventory of all I had seen, heard, smelled, and felt: dizziness, horror, stupor, astonishment, joy, enthusiasm, nausea, inescapable attraction. What had attracted me? It was difficult to say: Human kind cannot bear much reality. Yes, the excess of reality had become an unreality, but that unreality had turned suddenly into a balcony from which I peered intoâ€”what? Into that which is beyond and still has no nameâ€¦”
“Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.”

Source : Jean Little (2001). “Orphan at My Door: The Home Child Diary of Victoria Cope”, Markham, Ont. : Scholastic Canada
“I didn't cheer in high school. I was the farthest thing from a cheerleader in high school. We made fun of cheerleaders. Everybody did!”

Source : "Co-stars 'Fired Up' over cheerleading". Orlando Sentinel interview, articles.chicagotribune.com. February 20, 2009.
“...you have to leave the island in order to see the island, that we can't see ourselves unless we become free of ourselves, Unless we escape from ourselves you mean, No, that's not the same thing.”
“Not every effort at loving difficult people will have a positive ending... We don't love people in hopes of a happy ending. We love them because it's the right thing to do.”

Source : Doug McIntosh, Paula McIntosh (1999). “Love Full Circle: The Golden Rule”, Moody Pub

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