Jason Reitman Quotes
When I think of 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' there was a warmth to those teenagers that I related to. They were not aware that they were in the middle of a horror film, and I really loved those characters and I empathized with them.
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When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.
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I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
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Dick Clark will be truly missed. We will carry on his legacy every New Year's Eve.
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Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.
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Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.
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Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.
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Within a month I announced I was going to start this initiative: A World of Women for World Peace.
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There's no such thing as a healthy tan, and that's what people need to understand.
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I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
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In the last ten years of watching films I have found that some of the foreign films I saw affected me most. One American film that stands out for me for its workmanship and artistry is 'Ratatouille.' It was an astonishing effort in filmmaking.
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My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it.
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I'm not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.
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So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.
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I'm lucky in that I have close friends and family and my agent to advise me.
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There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.
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Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
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I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.
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Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.
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When the opportunity to choreograph came up, it was nothing more in my head but an opportunity. Then it suddenly became a career very quickly.
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I am much more wired to be an athlete than anything else. I understand the 'hard work = payoff' equation in sports. I run marathons and I box. And that's my Puerto Rican flag hanging in Freddie Roach's Wild Card Boxing gym. I gave it to him. My last N.Y.C. marathon time I ran in three hours flat.
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There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.
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The biggest sin in the world would be if I lost my love for the ocean.
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It’s no company at all, when people know nothing and say nothing,’ she muttered.
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When I think of 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' there was a warmth to those teenagers that I related to. They were not aware that they were in the middle of a horror film, and I really loved those characters and I empathized with them.
