Jay Chandrasekhar Quotes
'Spinal Tap' influenced me, I think, specifically in making me really pay attention to tone.
Quotes to Explore
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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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I would say my career is in a very good place. I'm in a place of a lot of hope for what's next. I see something great, but I'm not quite there.
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There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
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Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
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Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.
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Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.
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I'm marriable. But I'm not married.
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We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.
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The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward.
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Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.
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Playing a team that's 10-1 gets your attention big-time. Our players recognize it as a major challenge. It does excite them.
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I think you can have varied and seemingly contradictory depictions of a single person because we all have many facets and, in a way, many selves.
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'Spinal Tap' influenced me, I think, specifically in making me really pay attention to tone.
