Jason Reitman Quotes
I think, through comedy, sometimes we're allowed to discuss things that you'd never be able to talk about in a drama.
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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I'm afraid to fail again.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
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I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.
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I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.
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Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.
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My favorite era was the '60s because it was filled with incredible creative newness, from panty hose to landing on the moon to Twiggy and Andy Warhol - I loved them, and they loved to wear my silver clothes.
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On the professional side, I derive great happiness and energy by solving tough business and organisational problems - even taking on tough meetings with customers.
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To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
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I went to a public high school and most of the comedy was coming from the black kids and the Asian kids and the Hispanic kids. And, the coolest kids to me where always the black kids. They were always fashion forward and they always dressed the coolest. They were always the best dancers, and just the coolest people.
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I really am thankful that I got to do The Proposal movie the right way with people who taught me how to do comedy better.
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I think, through comedy, sometimes we're allowed to discuss things that you'd never be able to talk about in a drama.
