Jay Chiat Quotes
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.
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It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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I know what poverty is.
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Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.
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Education is neither eastern nor western.
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Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.
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Like I said, everybody has got something they have to deal with health-wise, and everybody's human. I should look after myself better, but so should everybody, right?
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I'm mischievous, but I'm calculated.
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I always want the audience to identify with my character in some way. I mean, sometimes you'll get characters that aren't very identifiable. Sometimes you can't relate to your character at all. I think it's important to keep the audience interested. But the best advice that I've gotten is to live in the moment.
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The one simple lesson to draw from President Obama's legacy: do not start off with a compromise. They won't meet you in the middle. Instead, what we need is an unapologetic progressive leader.
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New York and New Jersey are probably two of my favorite places to get really good surf in the summertime.
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