Jeff Baena Quotes
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.
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I'm in hotel rooms most of the time, and it can be hard to find a hotel with a nice gym. It was important for me to have a workout I could do in my room.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
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At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
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In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.
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When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
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At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.
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I have a biology degree, okay?
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My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.
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I am not a fashion freak!
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I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.
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There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.
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Occasionally, I will come across something that has lost its label over the years - maybe the client didn't want to declare the dress at customs and took the label out - but I'll recognize it from an image that I've seen in Vogue, or a little thumbnail sketch.
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If I wanted the ticket to be a $200 ticket, I'd have made it a $200 ticket, but I don't want it to be that.
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What kids are exposed to on television is more frightening and horrifying than what they see in my books.
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I'm just trying to get an exposure and make my day.
