Jay Chiat Quotes

I like the Gap ad, the khaki one. I liked that.

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• Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Guy

• I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.

  

  Ralph Allen
  • Day
  • Discipline
  • Emotion

• I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a different hobby than most girls my age. Acting is kind of an extracurricular activity.

  

  Natasha Calis
  • Different
  • Family
  • Friends

• I don't like attacking.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Like
  • Attacking

• I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • Director
  • Project

• We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • War
  • Future
  • Vision

• Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Country
  • American
  • Chinese

• I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.

  

  Verite
  • Future
  • Want
  • Career

• But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I love coming to Detroit. First getting to be buddies with Kid Rock in the beginning, and him being really great to us, showing us love, the love of the city. I feel like it's our city now, too.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Great
  • City
  • Like

• I'm the only one responsible for the choices I make and the opportunities I get. When you read the script, you don't know how it's going to shape up. You just know what you've been narrated.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Up
  • Know
  • Choices

• I think that people in general appreciate honesty and not trying to cook something up just to fit a mold that would be beneficial for you. I never made music like that.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.

  

  Ice T
  • Happy
  • Cool
  • Win

• I require every Taipei student to swim; if they can't pass the test they won't graduate. Why do I do that? Because I think that is very, very important integral part of their education.

  

  Ma Ying-jeou
  • Important
  • Why
  • Think

• Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.

  

  Ovid
  • Women
  • Same
  • Just

• It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me.

  

  Laura Marling
  • People
  • Important
  • Relax

• We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

  

  Walter Scott
  • See
  • Snow
  • Build

• Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Stars

• One of the things about comics is people can linger on images and words as long as they want.

  

  Kelly Sue DeConnick
  • People
  • Long
  • Words

• I support [FRAME's] objectives, largely because I do not believe that results of tests conducted on animals will be neccessarily relevant to human beings.

  

  Ian Jenkins
  • Believe
  • Support

• Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the porch, absently picking ticks engorged like grapes off the sleeping dogs. And when the men kissed the women good night, and their weekend whiskers scratched the women's cheeks, the women did not think shave, they thought stay.

  

  Amy Hempel
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• I learned to play by ear before I learned music theory. For me, that makes sense. After all, children learn to speak before they read and write. The more you understand of music - how harmony and time signatures work, and what chords and inversions are - the more you'll enjoy it.

  

  Jools Holland
  • Time
  • Work
  • Music

• The first couple of pictures I wrote and directed were dreadful, because I was dealing in worlds that were not familiar to me, and writing about fantasy. They were just not anything I was really connected to.

  

  Emilio Estevez
  • Writing
  • Couple

• I like the Gap ad, the khaki one. I liked that.

  

  Jay Chiat