Jake Epstein Quotes
If you'd ever told me that my Broadway debut would be playing Spider-Man, I would have laughed in your face.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
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Drama starts where logic ends.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
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I love the hip-hop nation.
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I'm never interested in the painting being a mirror to culture. I think that's really boring. What I'm interested in is painting as an affective space. The place where the hierarchies of the world can be rearranged within the space of a painting. And they can be articulated in different ways.
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When something comes to my brain, I don't ignore it. You never know what it's going to turn into.
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Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life.
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The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach.
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Jazz scares me. I've witnessed so many incredible singers and jazz musicians. Pop and soul music have always been the things that I felt like I could do.
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I grew up with 'Jane Eyre,' reading it at school, and it's one of those, I think, for a lot of women, a lot of girls, it's the iconic story and so many girls relate to Jane Eyre and her character.
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The Book of Isaiah begins with a description of the disasters which had overtaken the nation and then in impassioned words the prophet spurns the means taken to appease Jehovah's anger. '...Cease to do evil! Learn to do right! Seek justice! Relieve the oppressed! Secure justice for the orphaned and plead for the widow.' (Isaiah I. 10-17.)
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As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect.
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The sea is superb, but the cliffs don't match up to those at Fecamp. Here I'll be certain to do more boats.
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There's a great and unutterable beauty in all this.
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When I read period material - and it ain't on Google - I am always alert for that one incredible detail. I'll read a whole book and get three words out of it, but they'll be three really good words.
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'Mercy,' I love conceptually because I feel like you can either think about it as if it were a girl - which it sounds like it could be about a girl - but I like to picture it as 'pleading for mercy for my career' type of thing.
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The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.
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I love directing. It's where my heart is, and it's the way my mind works.
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If you'd ever told me that my Broadway debut would be playing Spider-Man, I would have laughed in your face.
