Jason Reitman Quotes
When you make a movie, you do it so piecemeal. You're doing it, not only scene by scene, out of order, but shot by shot, line by line. And there's this idea that the director has the whole thing in his or her head and they're going to somehow weave it all together in the end.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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I want to develop Katihar as an ideal district. That is my dream for my constituency.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.
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You can tell when someone is driven by labels. If something is couture, they think it's important and wear it and sometimes make a terrible fashion mistake. People are shocked that I know so little about designers.
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Teams that play together beat those teams with superior players who play more as individuals.
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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I'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office.' We can't all be crazies. You need some balance.
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I don't dig parties. I rather sit at home with my friends and a good movie.
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A queen is wise. She has earned her serenity, not having had it bestowed on her but having passer her tests. She has suffered and grown more beautiful because of it. She has proved she can hold her kingdom together. She has become its vision. She cares deeply about something bigger than herself. She rules with authentic power.
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Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.
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These days, to be seven years in one spot in any pro sport is a pretty long tenure.
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When you make a movie, you do it so piecemeal. You're doing it, not only scene by scene, out of order, but shot by shot, line by line. And there's this idea that the director has the whole thing in his or her head and they're going to somehow weave it all together in the end.
