Jason Reitman Quotes
I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'What's your advice?' first I say, 'Be born the son of a famous director. It's invaluable.'
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
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But I think we need the international market.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.
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Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
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I have not practiced saxophone since 1980. I mean, not one note. I do not pick it up in my house, and that's the end of it.
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When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. Irish poetry was heavy with custom. Sometimes at night, when I tried to write, a ghost hand seemed to hold mine. Where could my life, my language fit in?
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I come from - I came from Wales, and it's a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn't waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don't waste time being soft. I'm not cold, but I don't like being, wasting my time with - life's too short.
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Liberty, n. One of imagination's most precious possessions.
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I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I did was after my mother died, and I realized that people sort of think and talk about her style and fashion, but in fact, what made her the person she was was really her love of reading and ideas.
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I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'What's your advice?' first I say, 'Be born the son of a famous director. It's invaluable.'
