Jake Pavelka Quotes
My goal in life is to make decisions that minimize regrets. I don't regret anything I've done.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
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But I think we need the international market.
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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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I was raised by women. Now I'm raising women. I was always better around girls. I live in an all-female household. I even have two female dogs... It's funny how that turned out.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.
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I feel there is a big sense of accomplishment and achievement and self worth through what you do no matter what the job, no matter what you decide to dedicate your life to.
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Imagine being told that it hadn’t mattered whether the Christians or the Moors got Spain! I can still remember my shock. I got over it fairly quickly, though, because by that time I had learned enough history to know that in the long run it never mattered a damn where any particular race of people planted its collective ass.
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'Wild Things' is saying, 'I don't have to belong anywhere. This is where I belong.' It's a place in the back of my mind that I created, and it's cool, and I love it here.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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My goal in life is to make decisions that minimize regrets. I don't regret anything I've done.
