Jacob Lew Quotes
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For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like much but it's actually pretty hard to manage. Because I'm not allowed to do a make-up day. I can't do two pages the next day. The punishment for not completing my page is that I have to eat a vegetarian meal the next day.
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I like being involved with projects that are not only entertaining but are also thought provoking. Either that, or jobs that keep a roof over my head. A mixture of both is always nice.
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Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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I am a common man. Why do I need security?
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I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.
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The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
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Power is natural, but it can be improved with a lot of work. It's been something I've focused on for a couple of years because I saw it as a place where I could make improvements.
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I was always the smallest role in community theater and school plays. I always had two lines - I was the kid that came on stage and said one thing and then left, and that was my part for the play.
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I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.
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One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That's a significant proportion of the population.
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When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
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I feel like my place in this industry is still progressing.
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My mom read French 'Elle' when I was a little girl, and so, when I was 15 or 16, I said, 'I want to work in fashion.'
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There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.
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Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's told me. The process of it becoming fiction is expanding and extending it: stretching the rubber band of reality.
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I've been taught by some of the best strength and conditioning coaches in the country, and I've learnt that technique for weight training and cycling is very much more strength and less conditioning.
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Prince, you never knew what to expect from him from one album to the next. Miles Davis was like that. You know, once you get used to one style, boom, he switched it and, you know, switched gears on you. So those artists are very exciting to me, very exciting to follow their path, you know, and their journey.
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Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations.
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Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.
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'Winter's Bone' really suited having a lower budget. It would be so hard rolling into a rural setting, a place where people are poor, and to be thinking you've got $10 million to make a piece of entertainment.
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Often I listen to songs on repeat for days and days at a time. There's something hypnotic or meditative, and it mirrors the way that I am putting the sentence together, going back over the same phrases again and again.
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And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly.
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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
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Businesses make decisions based on what they are seeing in their order books.
