Jason Kilar Quotes
I grew up hearing stories about how my maternal grandfather had put himself through engineering school in New York City. He saved money by walking down to a gas station once a week to take a shower. When I applied to college, both education and investment value were important to me.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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By and large my relations with the US were good.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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Retiring is the easy way out.
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You can't fake being a star. But you can also become a great personality.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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I get embarrassed a lot of times getting attention, but I like being onstage. Do you know what I mean? If I'm in a crowd of people and they're all looking at me, I will feel embarrassed. It's a strange dichotomy.
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At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
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I've never been a calm, midrange type person.
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I know that a Christmas tree farm in Pennsylvania is about the most random place for a country singer to come from, but I had an awesome childhood.
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Some actors say they don't know themselves at all, and that's why they act: because they can disappear into other people.
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I do eat what I want. I love meat - I'm Cuban: I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role. I choose a lot of greens, proteins, and fats, and I like to be really active.
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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
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People who talk of the spread of music in England and the increasing love of it, rarely seem to know where the growth of the art is really strong and properly fostered: some day the press will awake to the fact, already known abroad and to some few of us in England, that the living centre of music in Great Britain is not London, but somewhere further North.
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I grew up hearing stories about how my maternal grandfather had put himself through engineering school in New York City. He saved money by walking down to a gas station once a week to take a shower. When I applied to college, both education and investment value were important to me.
