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

• I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Matter
  • Accept
  • Someone

• 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

• Mandatory minimum sentencing has disproportionately affected blacks, Hispanics and others who often don't have the financial means to fight back.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Financial
  • Fight
  • Others

• I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Hope
  • Drama
  • Hollywood

• 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

• Speaking from personal experience, I think that losing the sense of free will has only improved my ethics - by increasing my feelings of compassion and forgiveness, and diminishing my sense of entitlement to the fruits of my own good luck.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Free

• 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

• There is no evidence that terrorists use Mexico to cross into the United States. There have been comments to that regard, but not one of those statements has contained hard evidence.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto

• I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe, because we are very close, it never occurred to me to write about her.

  

  Amy Bloom
  • Sister

• I remember going to see Billy Graham in a cinema in Glasgow, and he was down in London. I used to go and hear preachers, and then we always went to church and Sunday school. That mattered a lot to me.

  

  Johann Lamont
  • School
  • Remember
  • Church

• Sometimes things just fall out of your head on the paper, and if you're smart, you learn not to touch them.

  

  Laurie Halse Anderson
  • Fall
  • Smart

• I know we're all addicted to our smartphones, and I'll say, if I forget my smartphone, I go home and get it. And so understanding how to integrate that technology into the driving experience, both the front seat and the passenger seat and the back seat, I think is very important.

  

  Mary Barra
  • Important
  • Home
  • Experience

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

  

  Nicholas Jarecki
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Directing