Jake Epstein Quotes
I did 'Degrassi' for five years in Toronto, and I made the decision to quit the show to go to theatre school, which a lot of people thought I was really crazy to do, but it was one of those major decisions in my life that I haven't regretted - hopefully I won't! I really wanted to go to school.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.
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There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
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I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.
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In spacetime, all events are baked together: a four-dimensional continuum. Past and future are no more privileged than left and right or up and down.
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I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.
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'In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.'-Learning To Sing, Page 240
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Life's a university that'll teach you lessons, regardless of your desire to pass the “class” or not, there is always something else to learn
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I did 'Degrassi' for five years in Toronto, and I made the decision to quit the show to go to theatre school, which a lot of people thought I was really crazy to do, but it was one of those major decisions in my life that I haven't regretted - hopefully I won't! I really wanted to go to school.
