Breckin Meyer Quotes
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It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.
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I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.
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At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right.
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I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.
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I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder.
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It was fear. He didn't want to see a united Germany. Stalin made it clear to me – I spoke with him many times – that they couldn't afford to let Germany build up again. They'd been invaded twice, and he wasn't willing to have it happen again.
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It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.
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What's the point of doing something good if nobody's watching.
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If I have an iPod, I'm good.
