Jason Day Quotes
I look back on the influence my dad had on my life and career, and I just try to take the best parts of what he had.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.
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I feel I'm a strange mixture of insecurity and strength. Most of us, probably most people. I'm transferring that same concept to the people I photograph.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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I just kept it real and had the freedom to do what I want. It's not designed for any age group. It's not made for radio. There are no edits. The whole album contains explicit lyrics but that's because you need it.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
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The Kardashians can be famous for being famous. What do they do? I can't figure it out.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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Choosing a spouse with religion in mind is not always a mistake, especially if your heritage and your faith are important parts of who you are. The trick is, as always, to recognize a good thing when you see it - and never mistake the bad for something more.
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Ever since the environmental movement was sparked by photos of the whole Earth taken by astronauts onboard Apollo Lunar Modules, I've seen planetary exploration as an extension of a reverence and care for Earth.
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I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.
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My father was a journalist for 50 years in Leeds and Fleet Street. I thought about a career in business to show I could do something different, but the reaction among prospective employers was, shall we say, underwhelming.
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Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.
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One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
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I look back on the influence my dad had on my life and career, and I just try to take the best parts of what he had.
