Jai Rodriguez Quotes
I had said to some pastor that I was having thoughts, and the church turned on me. They went to my mom and said, So sorry about your son.
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It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'
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Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.
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I try to be as ignorant about things as I can.
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Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
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I've worked so hard for so long, and everyone's reaction has made me feel like... almost like they trust me, which is just a wonderful feeling. It pushes me to write things better and better.
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The thing is, the Tulsa experience that I wrote about in 'The Outsiders' is closer to the universal experience than it would be if I wrote it from L.A. or New York. It's an everyman story.
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I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.
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Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
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A prize with money attached to it has a lot of prestige.
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Let's be real: more often than not, Hollywood does not have three-dimensional characters for women to play.
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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I know my predecessors have written a Green Arrow who has a lot of thoughts about social justice, but that was a more evolved, older, wiser Green Arrow.
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My idea of forgiveness is letting go of resentment that does not serve your better interest, ridding yourself of negative thoughts. All they do is make you miserable. Believe me, you can fret and fume all you want, but whoever it was that wronged you is not suffering from your anguish whatsoever.
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I had said to some pastor that I was having thoughts, and the church turned on me. They went to my mom and said, So sorry about your son.
