Jay Chiat Quotes
Outside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry.
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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As you get older, and this is a young man's game, and people say, 'Well, there's no way I can keep up running the way I'm running; there's no way my arm is going to stay as strong as it is.' It's the challenge of trying to stay in my tip-top shape year in and year out so I can keep playing the way I want to play.
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If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.
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Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
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Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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God's been very good to me. I'm truly blessed.
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The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.
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America has much greatness left in her.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.
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The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
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Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.
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If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
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I can't act without music very well.
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Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many were homosexuals - the two things seem to go together.
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People sometimes think I'm sort of all-knowing.
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I was a big Oasis fan.
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With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.
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People really are very concerned when they put their head on the pillow at night - they're concerned that America may cease to be what America has been because we are leveraging the future of our children and our grandchildren.
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With Superman, super powers are just ancillary. It's that character, with all those principles and understanding... that's who he is right there. I think I tried to portray a sense of trust and power and charisma for Superman. That's what we believe Superman is.
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Outside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry.
