Jason Calacanis Quotes
You have to get in the limelight based on what you do, how creative you are, and not how much money you make.
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
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I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
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The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
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Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.
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One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'
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There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.
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On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
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In my career, there have been roles I haven't taken because someone involved with the project gave me a bad vibe. I don't care how much money is on the table: No job is worth feeling uneasy every day.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
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Actors go, 'I just want to act.' And I say to them, 'You know, stop for a second and think about what charges you up the most. Do you want to be on the stage, do you want to be in film, do you want to be a comic actor? Do you just want to make it for the money and capitalize on your look and do commercials and soaps?'
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In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power.
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You have to get in the limelight based on what you do, how creative you are, and not how much money you make.
