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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Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.
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There is talk ... of our constructing Dnieprostroy through our own means. The means needed are great, several hundred millions. Let us not get into the position of the peasant who, after accumulating a nest-egg, instead of repairing his plough and renewing his equipment, buys a gramophone and goes bankrupt.
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That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal.
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If we go back to the moon, we're guaranteed second, maybe third place because while we are spending all that money, Russia has its eye on Mars. Landing people on the moon will be terribly consuming of resources we don't have. It sounds great - 'Let's go back. This time we're going to stay.' I don't know why you would want to stay on the moon.
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My work comes first, reasons for it follow.
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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.
