Jeff Baena Quotes
I don't know if it's because my sensitivity is through the roof, but I can't stand contrived dialogue anymore.
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It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
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I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody.
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I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
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I'm painfully middle class.
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Food is my favourite thing in the world. I always say if I ate what I actually wanted to eat I'd be in one of those electronic scooters because I'd be too big.
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A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
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I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
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I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.
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We are the second oldest state in the Union because too many of our young people are leaving Pennsylvania. They are leaving Pennsylvania behind for opportunities elsewhere.
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If Queen Elizabeth knighthooded me and I would get the title Sir Usain Bolt. That sounds very nice.
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Stay externally focused - on your customers - and focus internally when you have to hire.
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I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.
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I was really shy growing up. I had braces, headgear, and no boobs - still don't. So, the boys weren't interested in me. The only way I could get attention was by being a goof and a dork, which meant a lot of physical comedy.
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I have generally sought to work on questions that I thought were both interesting and approachable, yet not too widely appreciated. To struggle to make discoveries that would be made by others a short time later seems futile to me.
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'I used to tell everyone I meant to be an artist..... I don't do that any more.'
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I firmly believe that the benevolent Creator designed the republican Form of Government for Man.
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Like an unexpected wet mop in the face of tired complacency, The Sovereignty Solution works on the receptive mind as a pry bar works on a tightly sealed box. Written with courage and passion, this is a book whose often counterintuitive clarity shakes entombed assumptions like an earthquake. Whether you end up convinced or not, you will never think about American national security the same way ever again.
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Hydrogen selenide, I decided, was perhaps the worst smell in the world. But hydrogen telluride came close, was also a smell from hell. An up-to-date hell, I decided, would have not just rivers of fiery brimstone, but lakes of boiling selenium and tellurium, too.
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I went on a book tour immediately after 9/11. I was due to leave the following Wednesday, so I just did. It was an amazing thing, because planes hadn't been flying very many days, and I got on this plane and went to San Francisco, and the minute that plane lifted above the clouds, I felt this incredible sense of lightness.
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Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law.
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I don't know if it's because my sensitivity is through the roof, but I can't stand contrived dialogue anymore.
