Jake Shears (Jason F. Sellards) Quotes
I hope that I do make music that can speak to anyone. I don't just want to play for a queer crowd.
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
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I'm fascinated by sports, the buzz of winning, and the buzz of losing.
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Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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Any reaction is better than none.
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I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.
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When I am teaching, I first give out Tolstoy's 'Childhood,' his first published book. It is so transparent. It gives you exactly what it was like to be on a Russian estate in 1830. You are there. And that is the hope when you sit down and write still, I think - that you can transmit something of what life is like now.
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I love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.
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When people feel good, they look good.
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Once you develop a comfort level with someone, that translates on camera.
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Dreams are things that could potentially be treating you as a pupil to teach you things so when you wake up, you'll be able to handle certain elements from those dreams in a better way.
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I hope that I do make music that can speak to anyone. I don't just want to play for a queer crowd.
