Jason Jones Quotes
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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I'm just being me on Instagram, and that's what I love about it. It's definitely personal, and it's, like, no one in my team would ever get my password for my Instagram. Like, that's a no-no.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.
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Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
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I've been into horses as far back as I can remember. There is a particular kind here in America called the 'quarter horse' that I'm very interested in.
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Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
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I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
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It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
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I happen to be half West Indian, but I don't know that side of my family.
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I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe.
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Once an entitlement program has been created with millions of beneficiaries, it becomes almost impossible to repeal.
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World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.
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My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'
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As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.
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As an actor, what you really want to do is communicate with people - this is my aim, my principle aim.
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After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception.
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A research group found that 56 percent of major companies surveyed in the late '80s agreed that 'employees who are loyal to the company and further its business goals deserve an assurance of continued employment.' A decade later, only 6 percent agreed. It was in the '90s that companies started weeding people out as a form of cost reduction.
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I consider myself very fortunate. I have a beautiful wife who supports my work and is raising our daughter when I'm out on the road.
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It's just not good to put stock in a Hollywood celebrity.
