Jack Scalia Quotes
Because if you have a strong foundation like we have, then you can build or rebuild anything on it. But if you've got a weak foundation you can't build anything.
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and getting 'bothered' is just part of the deal. It's not a bother to me at all. That's part of being an actor and that's something you have to realize before you ever get into this business.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
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What you pay for an investment is the single biggest determinant for how successful that investment will be. When equity prices are high, your returns will be lower. When they are cheap, your returns will be higher.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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I'm really excited about the prospect of deepening what is already a really strong relationship that I have with the people of Broward.
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I feel a strong affinity to Ke$ha and Katy Perry and a lot of these women who are really pushing the girl power femme fatale thing. It's fun, and it's unapologetic, and they tell women they can do whatever they want, and that's true, and that's a message that I want to carry, to tell girls they can do whatever they want.
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Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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How can you have an educated workforce, how do you equal the economic disparities in this country, if you can't make college more affordable for those who are struggling to make it?
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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The richer you are and the more financial advisers you employ, the less likelihood there is that you can ever discover what you are really worth.
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We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors.
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I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.
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You have to believe in yourself, challenge yourself, and push yourself until the very end; that's the only way you'll succeed.
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It feels bad to play a bad guy. I did George W. Bush for years, and I hated him. But you have to give full voice to the villains. You have to have really convincing villains, or it's not worth anything as drama or comedy.
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I weave the company into what we laughingly call 'Jack's novel.' I write this novel for them about who they are and what's going on in their world. When I had 90 people in 'Porgy and Bess,' each had a story, history and family relationship.
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They had done him the honor to take him for a madman, but had set him free on discovering that he was only a poet.
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Because if you have a strong foundation like we have, then you can build or rebuild anything on it. But if you've got a weak foundation you can't build anything.
