Jules Asner Quotes
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
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I don't want to over-promise and under-deliver.
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I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.
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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.
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Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.
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My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance.
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I toured with Lady Gaga, and her choreographer is incredibly talented and develops some crazy routines. Lady Gaga is very involved in the dancing, too, and she always wants to have creative input. I had an incredible time with her!
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Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
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In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
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My Chinese side comes out in my dancing. There's a certain in-the-moment sentimentality, an appreciation for the smallest details.
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There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'
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Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.
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Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary.
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It is not a little Surprising that Christianity, whose chief excellence consists of softening the human heart, in cherishing and improving its finer Feelings, should encourage a Practice so totally repugnant to the first Impression of Right and Wrong. What adds to the wonder is that this Abominable Practice has been introduced in the most enlightened Ages.
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In capitalist society we have a democracy that is curtailed, wretched, false, a democracy only for the rich, for the minority. The dictatorship of the proletariat, the period of transition to communism, will for the first time create democracy for the people, for the majority, along with the necessary suppression of the exploiters, of the minority.
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I waited. Because with Eli, he was never trying to get you to finish for him. He always knew where he was going, even if it took a little while to get there.
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It was great to do it against Saint Rose. My father's whole family went there. I broke the Saint Rose chain. I was going crazy at the end, but they weren't going to foul me. I knew I'd have to get a rebound to draw the foul, and that's what happened.
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Don Pedro - (...)'In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.' Benedick - The savage bull may, but if ever the sensible Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set them in my forehead, and let me be vildly painted; and in such great letters as they writes, 'Here is good horse for hire', let them signify under my sign, 'Here you may see Benedick the married man.
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I think women get labeled a lot as being crazy. But I think men make us crazy.
