Jason Scott Lee Quotes
A lot of times when you're acting, you're no longer talking and listening; you're going at it for your own self.
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A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's going on in the news in order to get the jokes on the show.
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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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NBA games are exciting to watch and have global appeal. They are very popular in China. I do watch NBA games on television when I have time.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
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I really trust Susan Stroman. I really think she knows what she's doing. I really trust Andrew Lippa and John August. I think they have proven themselves over and over again and know what to do, and they have the big picture in mind.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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EmTech Asia brings together some of the brightest minds in technology and computer security.
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You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
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The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.
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Was it possible for the sexes to hear each other without saying, My powerlessness is greater than your powerlessness? It was becoming obvious each sex had a unique experience of both power and powerlessness. In my mind's eye I began to visualize a listening matrix as a framework within which we could hear these different experiences. It looked like this:
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People come up to me and say, 'You changed my life.' I don't think I changed anyone's life. I think their life changed while they were listening to the music.
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Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.
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It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving to nowhere in particular, for listening to music, for talking about books, for obsessing over pop culture, but mostly for laughing, talking, and simply being together. There was nothing one could say that the other would find too cruel or too kind. And on those rare occasions when they did tire of each other, they needed only go a day without talking before they yearned to reconnect.
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Well lately I have listening to a lot of movie soundtracks.
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A lot of times when you're acting, you're no longer talking and listening; you're going at it for your own self.
