Jami Gertz Quotes
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I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.
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Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
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I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!
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I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.
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I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies.
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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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It's great to be mean, it is, it's fun.
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I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas.
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Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.
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The battleground has been moderates of all faith traditions in all the countries of the world against the radicals of all faith traditions in all parts of the world.
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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
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And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.
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Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know they're major, even if we don't always realise it at the time. Farming created cities. Writing, followed eventually by printing, vastly increased the preservation and transmission of cultural information across time and space.
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I love fashion - I really feel it's where I belong.
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Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates.
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It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while those which aim only at the good of the rulers are wrong.
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My favorite on screen moments are when you are really there and you know you're creating something. That's so exciting... it's why you come to work.
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Sadly, I'm one of those people who emotionally puts things off and then gets caught very blindsided at the end.
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I never mind talking about my dad. I'm proud of who he is, and being his son is one of the things I'm most proud of. To be constantly compared to someone so brilliant, who happens to be your dad, is cool.
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Well yes, my son was bar mitzvahed last April, after I made this film.
