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 think that there should be this thing for cover-ups on tattoos. I want to develop it. It's like a skin-toned transfer, and then all the make-up artist has to do is airbrush over it to blend it into the skin. There's nothing like that. At the moment, you literally have to go red and get it to skin color, which takes forever.
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It was the silent time before dawn, along the shores of what had been one of the most beautiful lakes in southern Africa.
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[On returning to the country] I went back to where I belonged.
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I am in the process of starting a nonprofit organization that gives rescued animals a home in a simulated wild environment and, for those who have been tested on, who are disabled, aggressive, etc., their own space to live out their days.
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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.
