Jason Wiles famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When I first started the show, I was known as the 'cop nerd.' I was in the 9th Precinct in the East Village every day. I'd be at work wearing a fake bulletproof vest with foam in it, then I'd leave and put on a real one to ride around with these guys.
-- Jason Wiles

#Real #Work #Bulletproof Vest
I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character.
-- Jason Wiles

#Book #Character #Cities
I rode with four street-clothes cops in the East Village. I spent six weeks riding with them every day - in street clothes, with a vest underneath.
-- Jason Wiles

#Clothes #Riding #East
The year after I graduated from high school, they came to shoot Mr. and Mrs. Bridge in Kansas City.
-- Jason Wiles

#School #Years #Bridges

A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.
There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.
I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
I think fiction can help us find everything. You know, I think that in fiction you can say things and in a way be truer than you can be in real life and truer than you can be in non-fiction. There's an accuracy to fiction that people don't really talk about - an emotional accuracy.
Well, I think that the image is a part of me. I wear the baggy pants, the hats, the whole nine. And you know, I may add a little for the excitement and the intrigue in the videos, but my family has told me that little air of mystery that surrounds me is for real.
Brains first and then Hard Work.
I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.
There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well

Jason Wiles famous quotes

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