Eric Jacobson Quotes
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I want to have a long career.
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In our family health, it's about having a balanced life, about laughing and staying on a positive note.
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I don't even think I'll see all of 'The Mist' until I'm 18. I'm going to the premiere, but I'll close my eyes during the scarier scenes.
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The two things that got everyone's attention about the 'House of Cards' deal was the two-season commitment and David Fincher. After David Fincher directs a series for Netflix, no one else can say, 'Well, I'm not going to direct a series for the Internet.'
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I think newspapers will survive in some form or another.
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Suburbia is all about private ownership and not having to share, and it leads to a paranoid, defensive mindset. I know this, having grown up in Essex.
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Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.
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In my twenties and early thirties, I wrote three novels, but beginning in my late thirties, I wearied of the mechanics of fiction writing, got interested in collage nonfiction, and have been writing literary collage ever since.
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Flying is always an unpleasant experience. You wait an hour for every ten minutes you actually spend getting anywhere.
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You can't really be too calculated about everything in life.
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I had an awful lot of my soul invested in Atari culture.
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A lot of the teachings really kind of keep me grounded.
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The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.
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He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.
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Not only will we see His face and live, but we will likely wonder if we ever lived before we saw His face!
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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.
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I've never cheated on a woman.
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As soon as I could talk, I chose shorts to wear.
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If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.
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If I wear it, you better like it.
