Jason Ritter Quotes
The only reason I ever do an independent film is that I believe in it, and I think it has something special to offer. I'm certainly not doing it to be a millionaire.
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It's those damn critics again.
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives rather than gymnastics of style or literary trends. It's a certain kind of academic who undervalues realism, largely because it is not amenable to endless exegesis.
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Nationalism in Norway was very strong in 1905, that we must be free of Sweden. But I must say, I'm not 100 percent sure that was a wise decision. We had the war; we were occupied by Germans from 1940 to '45. And if there had been one Scandinavian country, then it would not have been so very easy probably to go ahead with the occupation.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
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'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
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Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.
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I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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There was nothing about Bobby I didn't like... I guess I never understood why he took a left-hand turn when real success came. We got along better from 1990 until his death in 2003. I had accepted him for who he was.
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I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.
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I'm not thirsty. I'm not a pop star. I don't want to reign over all forever... I don't want to be famous! It makes me feel sick, the thought of being a famous person. It's just not me.
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He was a little surprised I called because it wasn't a big deal to him, and it wasn't a big deal to the organization so we just moved past it.
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The only reason I ever do an independent film is that I believe in it, and I think it has something special to offer. I'm certainly not doing it to be a millionaire.
