Chilly Gonzales (Jason Charles Beck) Quotes
You never have to choose between being the pure artist or the craven, sellout entertainer. You can be both.
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I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
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The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.
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I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.
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When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.
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That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.
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Every time there's an election, people start to criticize China.
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In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'
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I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.
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For commercial books in a genre, readers' and editors' expectations may be fairly rigid. Some romance lines, for instance, issue fairly detailed writers' guidelines explaining exactly what must happen in a book they publish (and what must not).
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I did three and a half years in the architecture school with no real love or feel for it. After quite a while I realized I don't like to pick up a pen and freely sketch and let my imagination run towards structures. And if I don't have that natural desire, what am I doing here? How did I let this illusion go on so long?
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Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.
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I like to be as free as possible at all times.
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Each generation of scientists also depends upon its own environment.
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The millennials were raised in a cocoon, their anxious parents afraid to let them go out in the park to play. So should we be surprised that they learned to leverage technology to build community, tweeting and texting and friending while their elders were still dialing long-distance?
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This is the power of images, the ambiguity. You are never completely sure of anything. With written language, it's more concrete. You have to establish some facts, but in movies, you see things happening, and the exact meaning behind the images is more ambiguous.
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You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.
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You never have to choose between being the pure artist or the craven, sellout entertainer. You can be both.
