Jorge M. Perez Quotes
Art, like real estate, is half science, half gut. We go to a lot of art fairs. We have two full-time art experts who help me make all the decisions about how to build the corporate and personal collection and what we put in our developments. We don't let interior designers pick art for us.
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.
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I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
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Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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I'm really a director's actor. I rely heavily on a director.
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It's true, you never forget your first love, and, for me, that will always be Paris.
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People do look at it as an insult that I say I don't listen to country music, which cracks me up.
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Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my own. I always begin with an emotion after I have established a character in my mind. I feel what they feel. I guess that is why it comes across so strongly.
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All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it.
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Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.
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The story might sound like common gossip when told by another person, but in the mouth of a storyteller, gossip was art.
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Does 'Shooting Fish' have less artistic merit than a play like 'Angels In America,' which I did? Well, probably. But it's good for something.
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The fall of waters and the song of birds, And hills that echo to the distant berds, Are luxuries excelling all the glare The world can boast, and her chief favorites share.
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Art, like real estate, is half science, half gut. We go to a lot of art fairs. We have two full-time art experts who help me make all the decisions about how to build the corporate and personal collection and what we put in our developments. We don't let interior designers pick art for us.
