J. B. Pritzker Quotes
I've fixed the toilet. And I've been crawling in claustrophobic places... you have to deal with that when you become a homeowner.
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.
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It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.
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How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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In Yellowstone National Park, there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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Anything goes. You always find interesting things that way.
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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
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With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.
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NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.
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The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.
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Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
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All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.
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Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
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I grew up in a courtroom kind of like the one you saw in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - big, big courtroom, sometimes it didn't even have air conditioning.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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I try to shield my children as far as possible from the public glare. I want them to have a normal childhood like we had. We went to school by the school bus, had school food... There was no special treatment given to us. The same applies to my children as well.
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I've fixed the toilet. And I've been crawling in claustrophobic places... you have to deal with that when you become a homeowner.
