Jay Chandrasekhar Quotes

I have always felt a comedy's story is undercut if you have a villain who is not really menacing.

Jay Chandrasekhar

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• With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.

  

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• Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.

  

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• I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.

  

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• I always have to be writing.

  

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• Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

  

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• I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.

  

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• Canada definitely has a strong program in women's boxing, and we're showing that women are capable, not just men.

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• But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.

  

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• I don't have a real home. When I got 'Avatar,' I sold everything that I owned because I knew it was going to be a long journey. I've got two bags, and that was four years ago, and I've been working ever since, and I've still only got two bags - a bag of books and a bag of clothes. That's about it.

  

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• The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.

  

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• People aren't autonomous creatures. They're under a lot of pressure themselves.

  

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• I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.

  

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• The world throws you out of your body, especially the cyberworld.

  

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• Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?

  

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• I loved the writing process. I loved it.

  

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• I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me.

  

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• One of the exciting things about an entanglement puzzle is there's no end to it. Once you solve how to take it apart, you have to solve how to put it back together.

  

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• I've always seen writing as a way of telling the truth. For me, writing is about truth. I have always tried to be faithful to my own experience.

  

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• Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.

  

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• There was some murmuring, but also some grins on the faces of the men looking on: the sight of their Captain sitting on the ground and eye to eye with a young hobbit, legs well apart, bristling with wrath, was one beyond their experience.

  

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• Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny is Fortune - what the world will bring, and the man will take or miss, encounter or escape; tragic Destiny is what the man brings, and the world will demand of him. That is his Fate.

  

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• I don't see any reason to discriminate against homosexuals.

  

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• I'm like old shoes. I've never been hip. I think the reason I'm still here is that I was never enough in fashion that I had to be replaced by something new.

  

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• I have always felt a comedy's story is undercut if you have a villain who is not really menacing.

  

  Jay Chandrasekhar
  • Comedy