Jake Epstein Quotes
I grew up in Canada and was a huge Spider-Man fan, and never thought of Spider-Man as an American hero.
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'
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The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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Too much negotiating and not enough work on the court – that's what happened to me during the lockout. Too much talking and not enough training. I couldn't put in my usual offseason work routine. I think that all caught up to me, with my Achilles problems.
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I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.
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The Zach Johnson Foundation, for my wife and I, is very much a part of what we do and why we do what we do. It's a great platform for us to give back to the community that started me in the game and other communities.
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I don't think anybody wants to see a dour 'Star Trek' movie.
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I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.
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But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.
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Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.
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I don't know if I'm a method actor.
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You were born as the one you are.
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I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and in my studio. There are books around me all the time.
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I lived with Ilana Glazer of 'Broad City.' She was my roommate for a year and a half. I was living with her just as she was creating and filming 'Broad City.' Both of us, and a lot of my friends, come from the Upright Citizens Brigade theater either in New York or L.A.
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Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.
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Being an actor, you can get spoilt a little bit: car services come and pick you up, you get put up in nice hotels, people fetch you coffee, and so on. It is wonderful, but you can get lost in that world pretty quickly and start believing that it is real life.
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You do what is manageable, and you do it well rather than trying to do a thousand things just a little bit OK.
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The payments which have been made into the Treasury show the very productive state of the public revenue.
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As an investor, I'm always looking for the next great American company. Who will create tomorrow's Twitter, Facebook, or Google?
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I grew up in Canada and was a huge Spider-Man fan, and never thought of Spider-Man as an American hero.
