Jason Ritter Quotes
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
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Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.
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War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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In France and other European countries, film stars are more celebrated. In Germany, if we are good at what we do, we are respected but not acclaimed. And, of course, we are not paid like Americans are.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
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It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
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Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
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I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.
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The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented.
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We think touch is short-term. The mouse and keyboard were stable for 25 years, but I think touch will be stable for 10 years. Post-touch will be stable for a really long time, longer than 25 years.
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Maybe I'll write an episode of 'Black-ish' about a guy being fired in late-night.
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When you grew up in France in the 1970s and 80s, the Vel' d'Hiv wasn't part of the history program.
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I play to see what I can accomplish. I don't play for fun. I play to see how good I can be.
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If you don't feel clean, it affects everything you do; you can't even focus right.
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My influences come from real life. I'm not interested in cinema for cinema's sake. I'm interested in life - what one does and how one interacts.
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Well, our songwriting process is pretty collective.
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'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times.
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Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.
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Redeem the misspent time that's past, And live this day as 'twere thy last.
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I like being challenged. That's the only way you grow.
