Jessie Baylin Quotes
In L.A., I'm always going to dinner and hanging out. In New York, it's like my life just feels crazier, and there's more options.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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The media can allege corruption, but if I do the same against the media, I am gagging freedom of expression.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
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I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
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I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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Little boys have amazing minds.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.
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A man never apologizes for the fact that he has to work. He might say, 'Hey, I am so sorry my hours were long today,' but he'd never feel he has to explain the very fact that he has a career. Once I stopped apologizing, I noticed both my kids also stopped complaining and asking me 'why' I worked.
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One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.
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When you put the musical in front of an audience, you get to see how the audience reacts.
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Life is very fleeting. It’s important to be gentle and optimistic. We look behind and think what we’ve done in this life has been good. It was simple; it was modest. Everyone creates their own story and moves on. That’s it. I don’t feel particularly important. What we create is not important. We’re very insignificant.
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My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia.
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In L.A., I'm always going to dinner and hanging out. In New York, it's like my life just feels crazier, and there's more options.
