Jay Chandrasekhar Quotes
If you're not doing something or saying something in comedy, the camera is going to go somewhere else.
Quotes to Explore
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We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.
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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
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It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid.
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If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
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It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov
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I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious.
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I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
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I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.
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I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
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I liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red Wing.
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I view myself as a dealmaker.
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I got out of difficult situations when many of my classmates didn't because I was smart, and I was lucky, and my parents were amazingly literate and helpful.
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There is nothing more incredible and moving and appealing than good music, and it cannot always be reduced to a story, to exposition. It's so much more abstract and brilliant.
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Once my paintings are complete, the model no longer lives in the painting as themselves. I see something bigger, more symbolic - an archetype.
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When we were doing 'The Office,' there was an area backstage where they worked on hair and makeup, and I was sitting there waiting to get ready to go on, and one of the writers went, 'I want you to audition for 'Bad Teacher.'' I went, 'Okay!'
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If you're not doing something or saying something in comedy, the camera is going to go somewhere else.
