Jay Chandrasekhar Quotes
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
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There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.
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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
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Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.
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Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
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I know, logically, about the fact that there are fans of my work in America, but it's hard for that feeling to sink in.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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Anything that's on television as often as someone on 'The X Factor' is what's successful. That doesn't mean that I condone that or think that it's right. To be honest, I'd be the first to say I think it's a shame. But if that's the way it is then that's the way it is.
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It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.
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I haven't read enough of the Bible. You know, I'm saving the Bible for if I ever get imprisoned, and the only reading material was the Bible.
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'House of Cards' opened some doors. I've been able to tackle some diverse stories and characters.
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I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you're not interested in them so that they'll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What's he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don't want to sign up for that.
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They used to call me Cam-bones because I was so skinny.
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My friends are a huge part of my inspiration.
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Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
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I got a lot happening, a whole lot, and it's not always easy being me.
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I just go where my heart tells me, where my gut tells me to go, where I'm enjoying my life the most, where I feel like I can have the most success. I've truly enjoyed my experience in NASCAR, to the point that I want to do it full time.
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What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.
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Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realised by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.
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I didn't go to film school.
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I have a Prius, but I'd love to have a white convertible like Richard Gere's in 'American Gigolo.'
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Radishes grow just about anywhere. People think, 'Oh it's just a radish.' But radishes are delicious, and people don't think of cooking them.
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The one mistake which is committed habitually by people who have the gift of half-genius, is waiting for inspiration.
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Showbiz works well when you give the audience what they want.
