Jorge M. Perez Quotes
I started my career as an urban planner, working for the city, doing what I would call 'do-gooder' things, particularly for low-income neighborhoods.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.
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With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.
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How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.
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'Twin Peaks' is the one thing in my career that I can really look back on, that I really respect and love and honor as something that's different. The one thing that I can hang onto.
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New York is a fantastic city.
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I'm at this point in my career where I'm trying to step away from the realm of fine arts, because I think it's a very exclusive, very restrictive place to be. What I want to be able to do is to change the lives of people with the same materials they deal with every day.
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I owe my career to Latina women. I was surrounded by the amazing group: my mother, my aunts, my extended family. They didn't necessarily have access to high fashion, but they had great style and looked stunning naturally at every age.
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I've had more ups than downs in my career. All you can do is keep working. You still have to take enjoyment out of what you're doing, and things will turn, and my smile has always been there. In good moments and bad.
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Working with great people makes you great; you learn a lot and it also gives you the experience and confidence to move on with your own career.
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I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.
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Well, you've got certain obstacles that get in your way throughout your career, but you have to be a strong individual.
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As a driver, you always dream of winning a F1 race, and to win so early on in my career was very special.
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Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole different cast of characters comes out.
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I found myself at dusk in the bewitching Roman city of Jerash with H.M. Queen Rania of Jordan one year, and scrambling with hardened paparazzi to get an image of the Princess of Wales in a tiny Nepalese clinic in the foothills of the Himalayas another.
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I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.
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When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different women.'
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Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compared to the rest of Utah - it's like this purple dot in a sea of red. And the government there is kind of a mix of conservative values and progressive ideas.
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My career is one of people involvement. I'm a promoter of the people, by the people, for the people. My magic lies, my people ties, this is what I want to do. I'm in it to win, I cant give in, I can't give up and I cant quit. Victory is mine. Working together works.
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If you don't define the problem you'll never reach a painful solution.
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If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.
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Red candy is my favorite - I like red string licorice, Swedish Fish, and red gum balls.
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I started my career as an urban planner, working for the city, doing what I would call 'do-gooder' things, particularly for low-income neighborhoods.
