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Jon Lester Quotes

My dad has ingrained that in me: 'Be accountable.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: January 7, 1984

Topics

Me Accountable Ingrained Dad

I love the TV show, and if you make a bad movie it means you've soiled it. Just like if we made an advert. We were offered so many times and I'd say, look, this is the good thing, and you can't compromise that, because then you compromise the integrity of the characters.

Jennifer Saunders

Love Good Integrity Compromise Look

I realized going back and writing and explaining in details the difficulties I had lived actually became emotional again. It's like therapy but sometimes therapy can be painful. But it's part of life and part of the autobiography so I'll have to finish it sooner or later.

Life Writing Details Back Sometimes

Nick Kroll, A.D. Miles, Chelsea Peretti - those were the people I was always doing open mics with.

People Doing Always Open Miles Were

I assumed no one would ever listen to my music, and for quite a lot of years, I was right.

Music Listen Right Years Would Ever

I don't want people saying, 'Should we get a female director?' I want to hear, 'Should we get a great director for this movie?'

Great People Saying Want Director

Just by nature, I think in comedy. I think in sketches and what have you. In every drama or action movie I've been in, I have to make a concerted effort not to turn it into a comedy. Every shot, before action is called and after cut is called, I'm usually in some goofy head space. It feels natural to me.

Michael Jai White

Nature Effort Space Me Action Think

My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by the hope that journalism would be a creative, thrilling environment.

Hope Experience Creative Environment

The idea that anybody might be allowed to use their common sense when clearly no harm is being done is part of history now.

History Common Sense Done Now Sense

I actually am grateful for Freddy Krueger, because the big surprise to me - with that sort of double punch of science fiction TV series and then the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' phenomenon - was that I got an international celebrity out of it.

Science Grateful Me Surprise Street

I'll bet you a six-pack of Coors that pretty soon, people will be discovering Cretaceous parasites inside Cretaceous bones. The possibility of looking into epidemiology and pathology is pretty cool.

Robert T. Bakker

People Cool Looking You Will Inside

Every frame and every scene has to have an intention.

Intention Frame Every Scene

Nobody in Formula One has won so many titles, so many races as I did. So Ferrari for me is crucial; it is more than important.

Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

Me Nobody Important More Ferrari

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