Jason Winston George Quotes
On weekends, we slow it down. Friday nights, we bust out a movie, and there is popcorn all over the place.
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Everyone romanticizes somebody.
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On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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It's nice to have my mother as someone I can talk to about acting. My dad's a director, so when he comes to watch me on set, he think it's his set. He's always telling a production assistant, 'Can you get me five donuts?'
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When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.
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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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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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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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I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
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I'm not somebody who gets teared up or anything, but I still look up at the stars, and it gives me hope, and it gives me energy. I think one of the things that we have to think about it is, we are all a part of this universe.
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I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.
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I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.
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I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.
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There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
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What we usually do to great men and women is relegate them to homogenised heroism. Their words and actions become soundbites and images in a way that gives us an excuse not to act bravely in our own lives.
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I only have to do three things to look halfway decent. Curl my eyelashes, fill in my eyebrows and put some lipstick on.
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If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.
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Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.
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On weekends, we slow it down. Friday nights, we bust out a movie, and there is popcorn all over the place.
