Jeff Baena Quotes
I grew up in suburbia, so it's a world I'm familiar with... but in my experience, all the families that I grew up thinking were the perfect families who kept it together... all their secrets would come out, and it'd be something dark and disgusting beneath the surface, so I wanted to exploit that.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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It's good - it's great when somebody who is 20 years younger than you comes up and says, 'Wow, we just got turned on to you guys, and you're really great,' or something like that. I like that.
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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I have no privacy anymore.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.
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I use loads of moisturising products and make sure I cleanse, tone and moisturise every day. It's just so important to always keep your skin moisturised.
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My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
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Unlike Texas Rangers, we actors don't have a stop date, so I don't know about retiring. Sometimes I want to stop acting, but then you get a good script!
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Product investment, quality management, and all the things that are key for a car company - great, there has been no compromise in those aspects. But I feel there's a lot we could do on communication, particularly from a Chinese perspective.
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Trump's biggest failure as a political leader is that he sees the worst in people, and he encourages the worst in people.
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I understand the power of symbols, and if I had anything on my house that seriously offended someone, I'd take it down if for no other reason than common courtesy.
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
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I grew up in suburbia, so it's a world I'm familiar with... but in my experience, all the families that I grew up thinking were the perfect families who kept it together... all their secrets would come out, and it'd be something dark and disgusting beneath the surface, so I wanted to exploit that.
