Jason Katims Quotes
Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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I had done another show called 'United States of Cars,' which was a pilot that didn't get picked up. And they said, 'You know, we're doing 'Top Gear,' and would you like to meet the guys?' It was the wild - most wild audition I ever had because I never went to a studio or a producer's office.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful.
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I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur.
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People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
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The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
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I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
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Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
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I can make my own decisions, I can do the music I like. If I fail, it's me failing - you know.
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I don't feel that normal anymore because I get recognised, even when I'm just trying to have fun or going to get ice cream with my friends.
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By definition, startups are not constrained by the limits of established company culture. And so they push boundaries and develop new technologies and ways of doing things.
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Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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The sense of jubilee for music and what we're making is always genuine.
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I always have two pairs of glasses: geeky black Warby Parker frames and Wayfarer Ray Bans. Those are key!
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I grew up with an Apple 2E - I had a deep, emotional attachment to that machine - and I loved doodling.
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One is that that's the way we started and we thought there would be more value and less confusion if the business model was just based on delivering news that's of value to Web sites.
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Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.
