Danny Meyer Quotes
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That doesn't make you protester - that just makes you a whiner.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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I feel like I have so many middle-aged women who look up to me.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
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I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
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The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
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I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
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In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
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I've never been one to want to be the center of attention and be put up on stages every night. That's just not really my personality. I'm comfortable with it now, but my real passion is being creative.
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Stay true to your own voice, and don't worry about needing to be liked or what anybody else thinks. Keep your eyes on your own paper.
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Expanding background checks will help create a uniform standard for all gun purchases and prevent criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from obtaining powerful weapons.
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I think in this country we're committed to developing plays, and many plays I've seen have been rewritten too much. The scenes are tight, the play ends at the right time, you know exactly what the scene is about, but it seems flat; you can almost see that too many hands have been on the play. The individual voice is gone.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
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I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff.
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My mother used to dress me in quite good-taste clothes, and I really wanted things that were sparkly and spangly and trashy and nasty. I don't know if I ever chose fashion; it was just there in me.
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My dad gave me the gene to enjoy cooking, and to enjoy consuming good food and wine.
