Jason Reitman Quotes
'Juno' really changed things for me and I get a lot of screenplays come in now, but I like to self-generate and I like to kind of pursue my own ideas. And I think the more personal the better.
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We don't really watch basketball in Australia.
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The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.
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Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.
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The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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I have visited people whose health has been endangered by tar sands oil. I have watched neighbors struggle to recover from Superstorm Sandy. I have seen solar panels and wind turbines become an increasingly familiar part of the landscape.
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When it comes to extracurricular activities, many children are getting too much of a good thing.
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Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.
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I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.
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I am, and remain, passionate about news.
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I do yoga; I'm pretty dedicated.
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Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
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The problem with some of our noisier exponents of 'American exceptionalism' is that they lack Reagan's moral maturity.
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I have always tried my best to do what I thought was the right thing at the time.
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Two headlights shine through the sleepless nightand I will get you, get you aloneYour name has echoed through my mindAnd I just think you should, think you should knowThat nothing safe is worth the driveAnd I will follow you follow you homeI'll follow you follow you home
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Jesus Pietro wasn't used to dealing with ghosts. It would require brand new techniques. Grimly he set out to evolve them.
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I find I'm a good deal more of a socialist than I thought I was: maybe not technically, politically, so, but intrinsically, in my meanings.
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I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.
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Carl is not even in the same time zone with those people. He is somewhere else, on the road interviewing candidates.
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Every game designer should make one explicitly world-changing game. Lawyers do pro bono work, why can't we?
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I don't think it's a black and white issue. If a man's family is starving so to speak, I don't think I'll hold it against him for stealing a loaf of bread.
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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.
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I understand signifiers. We're social creatures and we have a physical language of communicating with each other. But it would be a really beautiful thing if we could all just wear what we wanted, without it meaning something… it would be a lovely place if we didn't necessarily judge or jump to conclusions because someone wants to wear a dress or because someone wants to wear pants.
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'Juno' really changed things for me and I get a lot of screenplays come in now, but I like to self-generate and I like to kind of pursue my own ideas. And I think the more personal the better.
