Jay Roach Quotes
I think sequels should be earned and we won't do it unless the script is better than the first one.
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.
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I'm not a control freak.
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I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
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I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
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Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement.
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Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.
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As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.
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I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.
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The process, not the results, have to be the reason a writer writes. Otherwise, creating a four-hundred-page novel is just too daunting a task.
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You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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You might find it necessary to 'snap' out of your mental inertia, moving slowly at first, then increasing your speed, until you gain complete control over your will. Be persistent no matter how slowly you may, at first, have to move. With persistence will come success.
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I get an abundance of e-mail every day, some say 'dear Richard, can you call my husband, he weighs 400 pounds...' or 'my 14-year-old is 200 pounds...' or 'I just got divorced, no one wants me, I am 500 pounds.' So I pick up the phone and I call people.
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I think sequels should be earned and we won't do it unless the script is better than the first one.
