Jay Asher Quotes
What you hear mostly people gripe about adaptations is, 'They took out this scene,' or, 'They had to condense these characters.' I understand why they have to do that. But if you had a favorite character, and now they've been melded together with another one, it's disappointing.
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If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.
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Akhnaten is kind of a dark, kind of mysterious character. We don't know a lot about him - a lot of information on him was lost. But he obviously was a kind of iconoclast of him time. I guess I'm attracted to people like that. Like [Albert] Einstein also, who radically changed our way of thinking about the world we live in.
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What you hear mostly people gripe about adaptations is, 'They took out this scene,' or, 'They had to condense these characters.' I understand why they have to do that. But if you had a favorite character, and now they've been melded together with another one, it's disappointing.
