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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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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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 there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
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Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.
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The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
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I try to be myself and, of course, be a good role model. I don't really find it hard, but you think about what you do and that other people look up to you.
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Country music's really good about telling a story, so I want songs that tell good stories where people can say, 'That happened to me!'
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My dad gave me the gene to enjoy cooking, and to enjoy consuming good food and wine.
