Jeff Baena Quotes
If it feels like you're aiming for something too familiar, and you're not having a primary new experience, then what's the point of making that movie? It's been done before, so try to find something new out of it.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single day to keep the value of their currency less than it would be against the dollar than if it floated freely. We think. Even China barely disputes that.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to language. Coming together they make language possible. But the fundamental building block of language is community.
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In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.
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If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.
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I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.
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I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will.
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Rumors of my wealth are greatly exaggerated. I have never been interested in money.
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On 'Paranormal Activity,' it worked to my advantage not to have much of a crew, but on a bigger movie, where you have to work with a larger group of people who basically become your second family for a few months, it can be a great experience. Even though all of my projects are small scale compared to most Hollywood productions.
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Nancy [Kassebaum] and I worked on a women's health agenda when I first came. Women were not included in the protocols at NIH, the famous study, 'take an aspirin a day, keep the doctor, you know, a heart attack away.' It was done on ten thousand male medical students.
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If it feels like you're aiming for something too familiar, and you're not having a primary new experience, then what's the point of making that movie? It's been done before, so try to find something new out of it.
