Jason Kander Quotes
If you can get to know a person, and you can really understand them, it can usually help you better understand yourself and why you believe what you believe.
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It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience.
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The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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I think if a horror movie is really scary, you'll think about it for weeks, and there's something kind of fun about that - about our art, really.
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Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal boxer from the Philippines who had won several different titles in several different weight divisions. Manny Pacquiao's rise from heart-crushing poverty to the top ranks of his sport was astounding.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret? What is their problem?' Maybe, 'What is their secret?' is another way of saying, 'What is their problem?' There's got to be some issue, or you've got a totally boring book!
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The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.
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My own conviction is, confirmed by a very close study of parochial registers, that some of the very best blood in England is to be found among the tradesmen of our county towns.
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The point of revenge is not in the completion but in the process.
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I started making work that I assumed would be far too garish, far too decadent, far too black for the world to care about. I, to this day, am thankful to whatever force there is out there that allows me to get away with painting the stories of people like me.
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There is power in naming racism for what it is, in shining a bright light on it, brighter than any torch or flashlight. A thing as simple as naming it allows us to root it out of the darkness and hushed conversation where it likes to breed like roaches. It makes us acknowledge it. Confront it.
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The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.
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Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.
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Book #8: The Vesalius Anatomy of Birth. As it hits the water, it screams and spurts blood like a pierced heart - as it sinks, there is a suggestion of entrails.
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If you can get to know a person, and you can really understand them, it can usually help you better understand yourself and why you believe what you believe.
