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Jay Hernandez

"Some of the material out there - I don't want to say that it's all bad - but there's a lot of bad stuff out there. You just continue reading scripts, and eventually you find something you connect with."

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"Some of the material out there - I don't want to say that it's all bad - but there's a lot of bad stuff out there. You just continue reading scripts, and eventually you find something you connect with."

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"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

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"Read for the sake of using others knowledge to find your own inner guidance."

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"I read a lot, but I read about the areas that I'm interested in."

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"I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian."

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"Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when you write, you put into every sentence an overflow of meaning, and you create in every sentence as many resonances and double meanings and ambiguities as you can possibly pack in there, so that people can read it again and get something new each time."

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"Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition."

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"You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread."

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"When someone tells me to 'just relax,' I wonder why they don't hand me a book?"

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"Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books."

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"I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was a good debut novel for me to have published. I was 26 or 27 when it was published. I already had a kid and would soon have a second."

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"I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it."
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"We're not in high school anymore and we've had a little more life experiences to help us better understand what were going through in terms of stardom and recognition."
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"I would say being in that institution - that psyche ward, or whatever it was. That was really creepy because it was a real place from like the early 1900s."
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"For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can."
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"No, I've never played baseball in my life."
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"But in film you always watch situations or stories that you really have no relation to. A lot of times just because there's no personal connection doesn't mean you can't connect with the film or the characters in the film."
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"No, I was going to college and got discovered."
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"There are a couple of projects that are sort of on the plate; I haven't closed any of them yet. I'm trying to figure out which one is going to be the best one for me."
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"I grew up in LA. I sort of watched the Raiders play and that sort of thing."
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