Jon Beason Quotes
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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I studied Morse code.
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As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.
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I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.
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I remember the moment I first became aware of aging. I was 30. I looked down at my knees, and the skin above them had become a little loose. And I thought, 'And so it begins!'
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I had written my master's thesis on Ezra Pound on 'The Cantos.' And don't ask me about it. I don't remember anything about it.
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I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making.
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The customer is always right: 'It's my money. You have to listen to me'.
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Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.
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I was 18 when I did 'The Amanda Show,' and I was 19 when I did 'MadTV,' and I was in way over my head. I was just sort of a goof who could do impressions of WB stars - speaking of the Dawson Van Der Beek era - and it was overwhelming. I don't think I've learned more faster in my life than when I worked on 'MadTV.'
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Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.
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All cultures have had a belief in ghosts and a fear of ghosts. People have always told stories, and everybody likes being frightened, especially when you feel safe. Personally, I find them scarier than vampires or zombies.
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I'm a bit hyperactive as an actor, I like to keep moving.
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My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him along with me all through my life. Every elderly man has a bit of my father in him for me.
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The process is intense and the producers, who are intelligent men, are bringing in new people for a fresh look at a complicated project that has been in the making for 10 years.
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He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.
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Sisley, I hear, is seriously ill. He is a great and beautiful artist, in my opinion he is a master equal to the greatest. I have seen works of his of rare amplitude and beauty, among others an 'Inundation' in the Camondo collection, which is a masterpiece.
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All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don't know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally.
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We are positioning the company to create a better shared future for all of our stakeholders by delivering on our vision and growing sustainably.
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When I was a little kid, me and all my family lived in a house the size of my daughter's room.
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If I knew the answer to that I'd bottle and sell it.
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Let me be clear, the discussions about Social Security are not about the retirement security of those Americans who are 55 or older - the Social Security system for those folks 55 and over will not change in any way shape of form - no ifs, ands, or buts.
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Anytime you do anything, you want to know who was the best at it.
