Jay Chandrasekhar Quotes
I've written close to 20 screenplays and 100 sketches - I know exactly how to do them. They're judged by set criteria that I know.
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I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.
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I just prepare myself to perform well, to support my teammates to play well, to try to get to the final, to the World Series.
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We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.
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Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.
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When writers don't know what to do with a character, they build up the supporting cast and universe to kind of hide that fact. After a while, you can no longer see the character for the underbrush. When that happens, you need to bring out the weed-whacker to clear some of that away so you can focus on the main character.
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Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater.
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When things are scary, or there's a struggle, I always think, 'How is this going to sound in my biography?' Sometimes I would just be living on protein shakes or the cheapest food that I could afford because I didn't have a lot of money.
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You know what they say about Chicago. If you don't like the weather, wait fifteen minutes.
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We have to abandon liberal methods and principles of organizing a society.
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The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people.
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I haven't done the profoundly impactful work many TED speakers have.
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Jewishness cropped up and has never successfully been put down since.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. … Man's true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Jezanna: Uh... lotta memories here, huh, dad?Albert: Remember this burn mark on the baseboard, from the time you stuck that piece of Erector Set in the outlet? You were always poking into something.Audrey: Mmm, girl!
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Well, this man the T.V. interviewer of Jasper Johns, wanted to know why I stopped painting the so-called famous 'Silence of Duchamp'.. ..and he had said it was because of dealers and money and various reasons. Largely moralistic reasons.. ..But you know; it wasn’t like that. It’s like you break a leg; you don't mean to do it.
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I'd love to run for office, but it requires such knowledge.
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I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.
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Power as an experience is as intense as sex. Power is more pervasive and unremitting. Sex has periods of remission.
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I had a fifth grade teacher who, as a very small way of trying to contain my class clown energy, gave me 10 minutes at the end of class every Friday to present whatever I wanted. A lot of the time, I did an Andy Rooney impression. I would sit at her desk, empty it, and just comment on what was in there.
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I've written close to 20 screenplays and 100 sketches - I know exactly how to do them. They're judged by set criteria that I know.
