Jason Katims Quotes
There's something about the alchemy of the show - the actors, the writers, the directors, the editors - that makes 'Parenthood' unique. You get so deeply embedded with these characters because you go through life with them, and that's our priority.
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
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I've never been a partier.
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What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were around when Ray Guy was around, are deceased. And some of the reporters don't remember Ray Guy. He should have been in the Hall of Fame 15 years ago.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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You just can't control your art in the future.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.
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Citizenship is a privilege. We don't grant it to people because they think they deserve it. What have you done for the United States?
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The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.
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Social service that savours of patronage is not service.
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People think if they voted for somebody, they should reflexively defend everything they do or say. And if you voted against somebody, you should just as reflexively oppose everything they do or say. It's not very helpful. What's more constructive for our kids is to go on a case-by-case basis, evaluating particular policies.
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There's something about the alchemy of the show - the actors, the writers, the directors, the editors - that makes 'Parenthood' unique. You get so deeply embedded with these characters because you go through life with them, and that's our priority.
