Jason Dohring Quotes
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I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
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I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.
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People always come up to me now and say, 'Watchmen' is the best superhero movie ever made.' I'm always saying 'That's super cool. That's nice of you to say.' But it happens now, more and more and more than it did when it first came out.
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I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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If you're not going to wear a tiara when you win a Newbery Award, when are you going to wear one?
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I'm more of a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl.
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It wasn't until two or three years ago that I actually learned that in the end he actually did kill someone. But that was a choice that he faced: to kill or be killed.
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Kids hate anyone who is different.
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Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.
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If you're quiet, and you don't speak out, you're never going to get anything accomplished.
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You hear ten seconds of a song, and you know it's OutKast. There's a strangeness about it because it's catchy, but it's not just pop for the sake of pop. They're pushing the envelope.
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The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something else.
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We don't want a president who fails at domestic and foreign policy.
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I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.
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I only act in films where I've got an A-lister as my mentor.
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I think that many people in history who had power were bumped off because they had power.
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Heroes have always served as a reflection of their times, a template of who we are and what we want to be.
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The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.
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We always think of misdirection as, 'Look over here while I do this over here!' And that's not what it is. You can be looking straight at it, and if you're not thinking about it, you won't process it. I find that fascinating.
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When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year's regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class.
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Idolatry involves putting the things we love in the place of God or seeing God as a means of getting the things that we want, and that's the second great struggle of our lives.
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I like to feel that something's alive in acting, like something's really going on.
