Jason Priestley Quotes
Los Angeles is a one-horse town. It's entirely driven by the entertainment business and that's what it is.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who this person is and what she's about rather than trying to go in on her culture. We need to move a step forward than that.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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I literally don't think about Oscar.
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.
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A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
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I love playing odd roles.
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Yeah, I like clothes, but I hardly ever go shopping. Hardly ever!
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Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?
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I think Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have done so much for women in comedy in the sense that they've normalized it. You don't think, 'I'm going to watch that comedy starring a woman,' you think, 'I'm going to watch that funny show.' They refuse to play the foils for men, or be reduced to the butt of every joke, and I love that about both of them.
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Mel Brooks is an interesting one because he started out making films about stuff that he was totally affectionate about, like musicals, westerns, horror films, Hitchcock films. And then, as they get further on, and you get to 'Spaceballs,' then it's just kind of contrived.
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Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic thing. But none of us has ever been on medication.
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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I did 'Animal House' in 1978, then 'Local Hero' in 1983, and then in '88, 'Crossing Delancey.' And I realized that every three to five years, you need a big role to put you into the national psyche.
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Today the world is a big jungle.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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Three of Newt Gingrich's 'Five Principles of American Civilization' deal with business, technology, and organization - all characteristics of work. There is no mention of liberty or equality or, for that matter, of democracy.
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The problem is that they are all stars at Madrid. You need someone to carry the water to the well.
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Los Angeles is a one-horse town. It's entirely driven by the entertainment business and that's what it is.
