Jason Alexander Quotes
The downside of being a celebrity is that people kind of know about you, and you really don't need them to know about you - you need them to know about your work.
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.
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I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.
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People believe what they want to believe.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.
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I'm so sick of people misunderstanding Asians in America and what we're about.
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My CIA colleagues were smart, dedicated, funny, and creative. Yes, there was sometimes stifling bureaucracy, boredom, colleagues who never should have been there, and later, deeply disturbing stories of the CIA's involvement in torture. Still, I got to do work I thought was incredibly important and, many times, had fun doing it.
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My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, don't take crap from anyone, but also live your life and have fun. The stereotype of a writer holed up alone all day is really unhelpful. You can't write real people and real emotion if you don't let yourself experience them.
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I try to take the time to appreciate and I certainly do appreciate and I do feel proud but that is probably one of the things I need to work on, building a bit of time for myself.
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People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
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History is more interesting than most people think.
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People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.
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I've been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it'd be awesome to work with him. He's really kind, and he's been really encouraging when we've met.
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
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People see me because I'm winning my fights. That's how I want people seeing me.
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Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes.
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I've had people break into profiles on my Internet; they got into my accounts. This was at the beginning of my career. There is a fair bit of alarm when something like that happens. It definitely bothered me a lot at the time. But you move on from these things.
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It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.
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For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods.
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I hope to work till I'm an old lady.
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I lived near Arthur's Seat when I lived in Edinburgh. It was the perfect playground as a child. I always have a wee run up there when I'm back.
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I realised that if I did what I wanted to do, it would work.
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The downside of being a celebrity is that people kind of know about you, and you really don't need them to know about you - you need them to know about your work.
