Dan Maffei Quotes
In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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Fashion and music have always played off each other and certainly do for me; I love both so much. But there are definitely those moments when you're playing the right song at the right time in the right place, and it feels like the best job in the world.
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I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
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If you look at NBC, two of their most successful shows - '30 Rock' and 'Parks And Rec' - are written by women, produced by women, and I think that's the future. Women are the new men.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
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Our favorite holding period is forever.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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I had moved across the country, taken internships, networked, worked long hours, and called in favors to get there. And I had done it. I was working in Hollywood. So imagine the melancholy I found myself in when I realized that I didn't love casting the way that I always thought I would.
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You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.
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I don't mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if I'm in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want.
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I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'
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From Texas to New Hampshire and everywhere in between, we know that support for policies such as expanded background checks continue to be popular in both parties.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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There's, what, 300 films at the Telluride or Toronto or something. How many are those people gonna see? How many of those are actually gonna be in a theater, you know? You know, as an actor, I mean, I learned a long time ago that the fulfillment in this business is the doing of it because you can't rely on anything coming out.
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When you have quality and show it, there's no problem.
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I am all for controlling guns.
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When you know psychologically what characters are feeling, then that plays out on how you dress a lot of times.
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In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.
