Jason Priestley Quotes
I try to be smart with my comedy. Generally, it devolves into bathroom humour. I describe my comedy as, 'I have the best intentions, but usually it fails.'
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
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If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.
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In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
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I always wanted to be an actress. It's been very high up on my list of passions, and I did a couple of short courses, and I've studied at school.
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Politicians know that structural reforms - to increase competition, foster innovation, and drive institutional change - are the way to tackle structural impediments to growth. But they know that while the pain from reform is immediate, gains are typically delayed and their beneficiaries uncertain.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'
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Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.
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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
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Winning is very important to me. I wouldn't be happy with anything less. And I work towards my goal.
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Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa Rosa mountains. It's a Rat Pack-era affair, with a chrome-and-turquoise kitchen and a small swimming pool in back.
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The experience of reading a book is always unique. I believe that you render a version of the story, when you read a book, in a way that is unique and special to each person who reads it.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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There are documentaries that will just save your life and be the conduit to the art form you started out loving.
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If eviction has these massive consequences that we all pay for, a very smart use of public funds would be to invest in legal services for folks facing eviction.
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I just made the decision that I was going to try comedy, and if didn't work, then I knew it didn't work. Then I would go back and do whatever. But at least I wouldn't torture myself the rest of my life, wondering whatever would have happened.
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I don't want to sit and cry for an hour in a movie. I'd rather have an action or a comedy.
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I try to be smart with my comedy. Generally, it devolves into bathroom humour. I describe my comedy as, 'I have the best intentions, but usually it fails.'
