#get

The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out. ↗

— Davy Jones

#life #like #mafia #monkees #nobody

That was the big secret. Walt would do things over and over again, with no regard to money, to get things perfect. ↗

— Frank Tashlin

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I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

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I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

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I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#came #cinema #found #get #i

If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up. But poetry is a really strong, beautiful form to me, and a lot of innovation in language comes from poetry. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#bar #beaten #beautiful #comes #even

Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece. ↗

— Maurice Jarre

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Once you discover that you can, then you must. And it's not easy. You have to take direct steps. You really have to count your blessings and you have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the blues. ↗

— Al Jarreau

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I want to have kids. I want to get married. That is still very important to me. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

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Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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