Jason Patric Quotes
I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.
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I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.
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I'm not a fan of people romanticizing their loved ones in death.
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Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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It's surreal to think that I own this beautiful island. It doesn't feel like anyone can own Lanai. What it feels like to me is this really cool 21st-century engineering project, where I get to work with the people of Lanai to create a prosperous and sustainable Eden in the Pacific.
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Traditionally with debut albums, labels insist on a face, so people know who you are.
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People always talk about the implication and applications of a process, but for me, the goal is purely about knowledge. Knowledge can become practical today, in 20 years, or in 500 years. Ask Newton. He didn't know there would be space research based on his accident with the apple.
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In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone.
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I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.
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Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.
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Writers are historians, too. It is in literature that the greater truths about a people and their past are found.
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Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.
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Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.
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Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These places used to have impoverished neighborhoods nearby, but the poor people got chased out by young singles living in group homes, hipsters, and urban homesteading gay couples.
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I don't think people know how much time and effort truly goes into the game and goes into simply just scoring a touchdown. So when you get that opportunity, you should be able to be free and be relaxed from all the pressure that went into scoring that touchdown and have fun.
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I spend my money like I don't have anything.
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Punk was perfect for lazy people, because anyone could do it--you didn't even need to know how to play your instrument, assuming you knew how to plug it in. There was really no difference between Sid Vicious and anyone in London who owned a bass.
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Chinese entrepreneurs have to implement their work under the leadership of the Party and the government - it is very clear.
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I just want to keep doing what I feel.
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I see no reason for recording the obvious.
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Tension is the cornerstone of any good story.
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I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.
