Jason Katims Quotes
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.
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Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.
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It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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As things go digital, the notion of new editions will go away. A publisher can add video and assessment content at scale, make the change in 30 seconds and it's just a software update.
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My mum had four kids on her own, so if I had one kid with one nanny and not a full-time job, it would be a joke. And I think the impossible happens when you leave your kids. I've seen so many nannies in the park on their phones, and the kids are running off.
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Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.
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Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.
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If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.
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One superlatively important effect of wide reading is the enlargement of vocabulary which always accompanies it.
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I have hair that looks like you could just take it off and plug a new style on.
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I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter. The conductor would just rip into me, and it lasted for years.
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At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.
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To me, the European Union says there is a charter that protects you; you have fundamental rights, and they are staying silent when they are violating my fundamental rights.
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MAC Cosmetics is incredible for lips; I always wear it.
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Your goals should be to have the system work for you instead of your working for the system! Be the hammer - not the nail!
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I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
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Wall Street was an extension of Scarface.
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The horse carries the rider with power and speed. But the rider controls the horse. Talent carries the artist to great heights with power and speed. But the artist directs his talent. That is the element of 'consciousness', of 'calculation' in the work – or whatever else one chooses to call it.
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Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.
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If I go to your home, and you're cooking me a meal, I will eat whatever you put in front of me.
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I want to be a fun mom. Not a gasping for air mom.
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'Parenthood' has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors.
