Jesse Andrews Quotes
There's a certain trope in young adult fiction. A young girl gets cancer and becomes this radiant person who's a fountain of insight. Everyone who encounters her is changed for the better. That doesn't happen all the time. The whole thing is much more difficult to process. Adults have trouble with it, so why shouldn't we expect teens to?
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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Good comedy is ageless.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
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Playing hard to get is not the way to win me over. I'm definitely more for the girl who can smile and laugh all the time and just have a good time!
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Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
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I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.
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I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
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I still do the same things, but it's nice. If people recognize you, generally everyone's very respectful, very lovely, but I wonder what it's like for real celebrities.
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People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'
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If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.
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Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood.
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True leadership knows not to go to extremes but knows how to confront and appreciate challenges.
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Much of my experience with language was formed in the church, which has an oral tradition. There are lots of repetitions in prayers and song refrains. There's a sense of incantation, that if you call not once and not twice but for a third time, the spirit appears.
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I take it one play, one game at a time, ... I don't look any further.
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I like stories that have a social impact and social attributes to them. That's the whole reason we make films: to broaden our limited view of things and to see how life is evolving elsewhere.
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There's a certain trope in young adult fiction. A young girl gets cancer and becomes this radiant person who's a fountain of insight. Everyone who encounters her is changed for the better. That doesn't happen all the time. The whole thing is much more difficult to process. Adults have trouble with it, so why shouldn't we expect teens to?
