Jason Chaffetz Quotes
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I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'
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Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.
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The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.
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Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
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Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
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I haven't only been offered Hasidic roles.
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When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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It's nice to work with your own alma mater.
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Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special effects. That means if you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead.
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In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.
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I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
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Caesar recognized the omens, but he didn't believe they applied to him.
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening.
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If you desire something, you don't have it. It is more interesting than enjoyment, because enjoyment erases the mysteries and the vision of desire. Desire opens up possibilities but never achieves anything, whereas enjoyment is just the brutal achievement of something - and after that, it's done.
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I've never been on a water slide in my life.
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When you find a way to be really receptive to your child's needs and really listen, you can be more open to what they say they want or what they say they need.
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Even if I don't see Brooklyn I have to see Anomolisa, because it's Charlie Kaufman. No one is doing things that they should't be doing more in cinema than Charlie Kaufman. This is how I look at it: he had an incredible story that was going to resonate regardless, but just shooting that movie is too easy for Charlie Kaufman.
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What I don't want to become numb to is wasting those taxpayer dollars.
