Jason Priestley Quotes

I come from a very blue-collar family, and a very hardworking family, and I think that my work ethic is maybe the thing that kept me on the straight and narrow.

Jason Priestley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: August 28, 1969

Topics

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In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.

John Landis

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There's nothing wrong with ankles. But only if you're playing football in the park.

Tom Ford

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What actor doesn't want to walk around a set and be called 'Mr. President?' Playing POTUS is a kind of rite of passage among American actors - our version of playing Hamlet.

Rod Lurie

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For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.

Mary Schmich

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When it comes to salt, what was really staggering to me is that the industry itself is totally hooked on salt. It is this miracle ingredient that solves all of their problems. There is the flavor burst to the salt itself, but it also serves as a preservative, so foods can stay on the shelves for months.

Michael Moss

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I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty.

Jules Shear

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Coming from art school, I had a great sense of style - as did The Beatles and the Stones - and I enjoyed projecting that. Image, attitude, great music and great lyrics - that was the '60s.

Donovan

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I started out at Procter & Gamble marketing panty liners, so basically selling women insecurity. I thought there must be more to life than this. Then I was on set for a Dr. Scholl's commercial, and I asked one of the execs, 'How do you get a job behind the camera?' and he said, 'Film school.' So I quit and applied to NYU.

Dee Rees

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I'm into horror pictures because I love the fear of being alone in the dark, and I'd recommend that to any composer who wants to work in this genre.

Christopher Young

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The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.

Anne McCaffrey

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Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism as the outcome of foul life and vicious desires.

Annie Besant

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The key word for transportation in the 21st is 'choice.'

Anthony Foxx

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