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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I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.
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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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There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?
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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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It's not just about getting a song on the radio or appearing on television. It really is about helping people change their lives one day at a time.
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You don't get to know anybody in a movie until after it's over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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Do not look only at yourself, and you will see much. Do not justify yourself, and you will be distinguished. Do not brag, and you will have merit. Do not be prideful, and your work will endure.
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
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The environment around you shapes who you are. How you handle an emergency or how you react when someone is rude to you, that's you.
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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.
