Jay Chandrasekhar Quotes
I am convinced that tough villains help make a comedy sparkle because they provide a contrast to the funny guys.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I always played to win.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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My ex-husband didn't like my singing. He didn't like my hair. He hated my eyes. Everything. Everything he complimented me on when we first met, he just hated.
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It's really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five different characters within a season, let alone a week.
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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I always have to be writing.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.
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Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
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On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.
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I come from a singing family and as is said, 'the apple does not fall far from the tree.'
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Acceptance is so important because we cannot go through this journey alone. I am fortunate to have a very supportive family, but not all trans kids are so lucky. I recommend seeking out a friend or an adult who you think will accept you and telling them how you feel.
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I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother's side it's more mixture, with a Filipino mother and a father who was Scotch Irish-French; you know, white American hybrid. And I also have on my father's side a great-great-grandmother who was Chinese. So, I'm a hybrid.
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I've always felt, and I think I'm qualified to say so because I've won a few awards, that it's a terrible shame to put something in competition with something else to be able to sell something.
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I am convinced that tough villains help make a comedy sparkle because they provide a contrast to the funny guys.
