Nicholas Jarecki Quotes

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

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• In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Eye

• The scene that has raised the most objections in 'The Interview' is at the very end, when Kim's head dissolves into flames. To me, it feels gratuitous.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Me
  • End
  • Scene

• I don't really yell at people.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • People
  • Really
  • Yell

• Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Life
  • Time
  • Present

• In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Depression
  • Corn
  • Divert

• A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.

  

  Ice T
  • Movie
  • Go
  • Sell

• So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • Like
  • Looks
  • Blow

• Promoters do not have a divine right to stay in charge regardless of how badly they mismanage an enterprise, nor do they have the right to use the banking system to recapitalize their failed ventures.

  

  Raghuram Rajan

• Our government has a responsibility to defend our borders, but we must do so in a way that makes us safer and upholds all that is decent and exceptional about our nation.

  

  Lindsey Graham
  • Responsibility

• I'm down here in Mexico, sick as a dog.My head is poundin' in this border town fog.Down to my last dime and comin' apart at the seams.I've messed up in Mexico, livin' on refried dreams.

  

  Tim McGraw
  • Up
  • Dog
  • Sick

• Genre stuff is the most exciting stuff for an actor to play. I get to try new things, do things I would have never got the chance to do.

  

  Amy Acker

• Evolution is a fact. It is the best explanation of what is known from observations. It's a theory as powerful as the theory of gravity.

  

  Donald Johanson
  • Powerful

• There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Success
  • Failure

• I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique - you didn't see that as a job description anywhere.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Up
  • Job
  • Unique

• I'm a pretty big Ricky Gervais fan.

  

  Craig Roberts
  • Pretty

• It's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing. I'm not a musician. I never thought of performing in a rock n' roll band. I was just drawn in. It was like being called to duty - I was called to duty, and I did my duty as best as I could.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Band
  • Taken
  • Rock

• During my first year as a graduate student, we worked on a measurement of the isotope shift and hyperfine structure of mercury isotopes.

  

  Burton Richter

• There are some roles you just don't say 'no' to. Those compass points: you get them so rarely as an actress.

  

  Anne-Marie Duff

• I look young. I heard this said so often that it became irritating. I once worked as a babysitter for a woman who, the first time we met, said she didn't want somebody in high school. I was 22. Later, I realised that in certain places being female and looking 'young' meant it was more difficult to be taken seriously, so I turned to make-up.

  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

  

  E. B. White
  • World
  • Organization
  • Room

• The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Political
  • Justice
  • Israel

• I think to write fiction, this is just how I see it, you have to have a powerful need/desire to connect. I can't. Wanting to and not being able to has lead to a lot of misery in my life.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Desire

• Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

  

  Nicholas Jarecki
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Directing