Jason Reitman Quotes
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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For me, music was a cathartic way to free me from the nut of Ghost. After working on set for 'Power' for 14 hours, it allowed me to pour my sanity and insanity into the music.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
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I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
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No one goes into the office for fun. You go, and even if you love it, you're there to work.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.
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If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
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I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.
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Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
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To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.
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I joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the Bible into all the languages of the world, and to do that you had to study linguistics, and so that was my initial exposure to linguistics.
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Being a part of the action is just incredible. I loved doing stunt stuff. I loved learning to ride.
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I can be arrogant, I can be insufferable.
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Where is there a boy to whom the call of the wild and the open road does not appeal?
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There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.
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Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.
