Jason Lee Quotes
I really liked Tom & Jerry. That was huge for me. I watched it every morning, before I walked to school. Even as a kid, I thought there was something really smart about it. I thought it was very clever.
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Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
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Justice is revenge.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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I'm not a sun person.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.
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The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.
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For the doubters out there, of course I was going to have help from Penguin's editorial team in telling my story, which I talked about from the beginning.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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During the rocky times, it never occurred to me that one day I would hold a position of respect and responsibility in the community.
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I started by doing a little funny story, and then I started going to open mics. I realized I had a lot of work to do - you have to get over the stage fright and get your stage presence up. It took me some time, but I finally feel that I'm at a point where I feel comfortable on stage and giving my point of view.
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I do think that people outside the fashion industry imagine that being a model is what you might call quick, easy money, but it can be very lonely - you have to be quite tough. It's also very physically demanding.
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I was physically abused and I retaliated.
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I feel like if we can use the combination of basically data-driven hunches and bet on really first-class talent to deliver the shows, that I think we could do as well as the networks do, who basically have a 75 to 80 percent failure rate for new shows anyway - even after all that development and pilot work.
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I really liked Tom & Jerry. That was huge for me. I watched it every morning, before I walked to school. Even as a kid, I thought there was something really smart about it. I thought it was very clever.
