Jake Gyllenhaal Quotes
I have a mentor. I have... guides. I have a lot of guides. Not a lot, but people whose opinions I really respect and who I will turn to.
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I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.
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Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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I love being able to reach people directly, but in an ideal scenario, I would not have to rush the release of new music… but the message is still there.
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Producing small films, you usually have four or five people you want, and you hope one of them will say they'll do it.
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One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.
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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
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I have a mentor. I have... guides. I have a lot of guides. Not a lot, but people whose opinions I really respect and who I will turn to.
