Jake Kasdan Quotes

When you take on a project, you have to be certain that you can make the best version of whatever it is you're given.

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• In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • School
  • High
  • Goal

• Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation's leading colleges become even less diverse.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Teach
  • Group

• I started cooking out of middle school depression.

  

  Zac Posen
  • School
  • Cooking
  • Depression

• Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • News

• I'm always amused when the 'New York Times' writes editorials trying to be helpful to Republicans and say, 'This is the way Republicans can save themselves.' Look, the 'New York Times' disagrees with us. They're entitled to disagree with us, but it's not like we should take their advice.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Trying
  • Advice
  • New

• Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.

  

  Edmund Leach
  • Good
  • Family
  • Society

• You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play it.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Mind
  • Want
  • Feel

• But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Think
  • Proud
  • Independent

• I get recognized by some people in my community, but not a lot. In fact, they would say, 'What do you do?' And I would say, 'Well, I did 'The Bernie Mac Show.'' And they would say, 'Oh, really? Well, do you know so-and-so?' And I'd say, 'Yeah, I hired them. I was the boss!' They don't believe it.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Believe
  • Community

• Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a romantic suspense. I have always put tremendous effort into making each book a page turner: The harder it is for the reader to put it down, the better I've done my job.

  

  Maggie Shayne
  • Done
  • Job
  • Book

• For me, it's not about being the best designer. I'm interested in being the best partner. The best collaborator.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Me
  • Best
  • Partner

• I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give them as much energy as they're willing to give to the picture.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Energy

• Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Music
  • Well
  • Mediums

• I started writing songs when I was real young, when I was 3 years old. The piano spoke to me - I don't remember when I wasn't playing piano. My second grade talent show was the first time I performed my own thing. I dressed up as Dracula and played a song called 'Monster Rock' that I wrote. And I won.

  

  Ian Axel
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• My teammates tell me to shoot the ball when I'm open. I feel like I'm open most of the time, so I shoot it.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Time
  • Me
  • Teammates

• Isn't it funnyHow a bear likes honey?Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!I wonder why he does?

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Why
  • Wonder

• Mr. Salteena was an elderly man of 42 and was fond of asking peaple to stay with him.

  

  Daisy Ashford

• The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song - not one. Not two.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Song
  • Light
  • Sun

• Old Arabic books, printed in Bulaq, generally have a broad margin wherein a separate work, independent of the text, adds gloom to the page.

  

  Ameen Rihani
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Text

• The Middle East is a very difficult stage to play upon. Without doubt, it is a good drama. And on occasion, there are situations so unimaginable, if not ludicrous, as to make them almost comic. But the cast is constantly changing, the audience is often disengaged, and it seems at times that no one is actually running the show.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Good
  • Running
  • Doubt

• We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • American
  • Want
  • Path

• God and His Son are glorified personages. God the Father is our living Creator, and His Son, Jesus Christ, is our Savior and Redeemer. We have been created in God's image.

  

  James E. Faust
  • God
  • Father
  • Jesus

• I was never treated differently. I never felt like I was lesser or I was discriminated against. I've only experienced that after I became an actor.

  

  Anushka Sharma

• When you take on a project, you have to be certain that you can make the best version of whatever it is you're given.

  

  Jake Kasdan