Jay Asher Quotes
There's no way to know exactly what someone's dealing with, no matter how open you are. You're just never going to know everything.
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Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
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If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.
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Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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I feel really connected to antiquity for some reason.
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
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I'm a provincial. I live very much like a hermit: reading, listening to music, working in the cutting room, writing, commercial work - which doesn't take up that much time.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?
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In a time where there are divides between cultures and races, I would love to use my position to show that we are all the same inside and working together is the key to moving forward.
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Having learnt my basics in theatre, I always feel film is a collaborative effort. If you do your part well and help the person in front of you in realising his or her potential, the film invariably comes out good.
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It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.
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It's our own small voice within that is our oppressor; it says we are not worthy and not powerful enough. Our limited beliefs are the real foes we need to fight and conquer.
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Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had been the master thinkers of my grandfather and other Mexican liberals. They did no offer me a doctrine or a catechism: they were and they are a source, an inspiration.
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I knew the people who worked for me. When you know people, you have to behave towards them like human beings.
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Be good at something. It makes you valuable.
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Harvard has been almost as important to the American Jewish community as the pork-sausage industry.
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I tend to not listen to my own music when I'm not working on it. No real reason other than it's nice to get away from it.
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The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
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The reason why I play around with the word legend is because this is my 7th CD and a lot of artists don't even make it that far. Many artists don't even pass three or four.
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I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.
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I ended up doing three very complicated off-Broadway plays that, in certain ways, were not successes in that they were received in a complicated way. But for me they were successes because they forced me to act without singing, which I'd never done before.
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There's no way to know exactly what someone's dealing with, no matter how open you are. You're just never going to know everything.
