Jason Katims Quotes
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We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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I had this maroon 'Lion King' tracksuit that my mum couldn't take off me. I wore it until the sleeves ended at my elbows and the trousers ended at my knees.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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I'm not slim. I'm a curvy girl: I've got thighs and a bum. I don't mind baring the fact that I've got a bit of cellulite because everybody has. I find it off-putting when everybody on telly is the same size or looks the same build. For me, it's important for people to watch someone normal.
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My EP, 'Room 93,' was all about isolation - it was based on the idea of being in a hotel room and being totally alone with yourself or that other person.
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
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I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.
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We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.
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I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.
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I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to write them.
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I'm going to try to do music for the rest of my life, but that's just trying. Maybe it's not going to work out. Who knows?
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Successful people often enjoy telling their story.
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Fall is my favorite my time of the year. I love it. I'll try and make it back to Vancouver a bunch. I love going back home for that. Everything turns orange. You start to get out of summer, start making your way into the winter, everyone is wearing jackets. Vancouver lights up in the fall, so I definitely go back there for a bit.
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People think about autism as something with kids. Well, those kids grow up.
