Ian Schrager Quotes
The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.
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In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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Everybody's had their differences with President Trump. He's a polarizing president, but I think a majority of the people like what he's doing.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.
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What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'
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Losing people is dark, but some things you just have to accept.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would play this game where, if we were driving with my parents and saw a junk shop or an antique shop, we'd scream at the top of our lungs. My poor father would have heart failure and screech to a halt, and we'd leap out and go and explore.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it.
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
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I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn't find my way back. The cops even had to come.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
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I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.
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I've lived an amazing life. There's no reason to focus on the bad. They teach you that in racing school. Keep your eye where you want your front tire to be. You don't want to be stuck in the rut? Then don't look at the rut. Always look at where you want to go.
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Intuitive powers played a central role in my scientific work, not wild speculation, yet a valued resource when no other approach was available.
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I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and you couldn't replace one of these people with fifty average people.
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Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.
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If I really can be said to have a personal style, I think it is reflected in my taste for the exotic and the unexpected. I like to create rooms which are essentially traditional - and then add touches of the bizarre and the delicious.
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The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.
