Jay Roach Quotes
My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone.
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I grew up on films.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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However, the Bible is called the Word of God because the whole transcript is an inspired, faithful, and infallible record of what God determined essential for us to know about Himself, the cosmos in which we live, our spiritual allies and adversaries, and our fellow man.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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I'll work out with my trainer twice a week, and I'll do some Power Pilates and might throw in some yoga. I love to row also. The main thing for me is just to move every single day for 30 minutes to an hour.
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I love working with women.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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I can't play a character that I am judging.
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I find that the kinds of music I'm drawn to are those that a lot of people take for granted.
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I was told by people who wanted to 'help' me that, although I had checked the box on the skills they wanted to see in the quarterly evaluation, they thought that I might want to cut my long hair so that I looked less young.
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When I left college I thought - based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked - that I might like to go into book publishing.
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I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
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I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.
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My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone.
