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Jack Jason
"Sign language is my first language. English and Spanish are my second languages. I learned Spanish from my grandparents, sign language from my parents, and English from television." --
Source : "Meet Jack Jason: The Most Famous Interpreter in the World". Interview with Nataly Kelly, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2011.
Jack Jason
#Grandparent Quotes
#Television Quotes
#Sign Language Quotes
“There's an old, private cemetery here in Palm Springs, where I live, just down the street from the airport, that belongs to one of the local Native American tribes, and it occurred to me one day that if you really wanted to get away with murder, you'd kill someone, put them in a coffin and bury them in a private cemetery or, better, an abandoned one. And then suddenly this whole idea of a long con appeared before me and I had this idea of using a Jewish cemetery.”
“I was going to make movies. I was the one in the family who was always rolling the video camera, making movies of my brothers around town, and then screening them for my parents. I still would love to make movies someday that's something that really means a lot to me, and I know I'll have the chance to do it one day.”
“We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.”
“Discovering I'm gay just sort of happened much later in life,”
“The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.”
“The hardest part has been maintaining a small head and remaining down to earth. So many people try to make you more than you are.”
“You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
“The 'interactive fiction' format hasn't changed in any fundamental way since the early 1970s, in the same way that the format of the novel hasn't since 1700.”
