Nicholas Jarecki Quotes
I think that people need to become more educated about money. We need to stop creating systems that benefit only the most-cutthroat sharks.
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Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
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When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?
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Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.
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Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.
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People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way.
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People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you endlessly with their broken hearts.
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Cape Town, South Africa, was pretty incredible. That's probably the coolest place I have ever been, and the kiteboarding is insane there. It's so windy, so you can get massive air.
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I do think 'All Is by My Side' is the type of film I'm the most happiest. You know, I'm figuring it out. I did just move to New York, so I have to pay my rent.
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Everyone said how tormented directors can be. I've never enjoyed something so much in my life!
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3) Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.
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I love boating - not flash, 'noisy go fast' nonsense, but the general relaxation of it. My wife and I love to get in our little Wellcraft and go as far out to sea as we can, hopefully beyond land. That is the best thing you can ever do. It clears your psyche.
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A king is a man strong of character and conviction who leads by example and truly cares for the suffering of his people,not a brute who rules simply because he is the strongest.
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A lot of times, it's nice to open, because the heat's off you. You just go out and blast your set and say to whoever's going to finish, 'There you go.' Even though when you first start, people are drifting in, and that's kind of a bit disconcerting.
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I think that people need to become more educated about money. We need to stop creating systems that benefit only the most-cutthroat sharks.
