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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The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by political parties, lobbies and sectors of the media. To meet this challenge, Muslims must reassess their own involvement, behavior and contributions in American society.
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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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Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights.
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When I do any stand-up, you're the writer, director, and producer. You're alone.
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I have an idea for a story, and if the idea is going to work, then one of the characters steps forward, and I hear her voice telling the story. This is what has happened with all the books I've written in the first person.
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Have courage, or cunning, when you deal with an enemy.
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What is true, though, is now we've got a bunch of videos that whatever side of the issue you're on, raises the temperature on these issues and makes people really focused .
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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.
