Jay Y. Lee Quotes
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The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
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I love to look back, but I don't want my music to be nostalgic. I want it to have the same vibrancy that the music I love had when it came out. I'm trying to get that electricity.
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I loved Alessandra Torre's 'Black Lies.'
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Everything can be satirized.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.
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What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.
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Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
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I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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For 'A Little Night Music,' I did try to get little bit more beefed up for that because I thought that would help me carry myself around the stage in that character.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in.
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That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.
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'The Piano Lesson' is very sophisticated, easily the most adult or complex material I've attempted. It's the first film I've written that has a proper story, and it was a big struggle for me to write. It meant I had to admit the power of narrative.
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I wasn't one of those hideous children who make their parents sit through hour-long performances when you're seven. I didn't do anything like that thankfully.
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If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream.
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I'm not a fan of taking too long in the studio. I always do one vocal take and jump out of the control room, and people push me back in... It's a real turn-off to hear things that are too polished. I feel like I've almost fought for the right to be that kind of musician - we used to be on a major label, and now we're on an indie.
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If a better person emerges, I will hand over management control.
