Jeff Bridges Quotes
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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You wear fur, it's like you trying to be something you not. You get fur, you can spend the same money on like, 30 jackets.
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I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.
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I don't drink tea or coffee. I'm like a child: I like fruit juices and sodas and creamy hot chocolate.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I was a dancer of no repute. But dance taught me a lot. You walk into a dance studio knowing you have to walk out with a dance. You improvise.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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Little boys have amazing minds.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
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All the roles are for boys. The girls' roles are either small or all the same. There's just nothing interesting.
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The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.
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You're not going to bring back all the jobs from China.
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Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn't quite there before.
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Well, who better to play Nazis than we Jews?
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Well, there are all kinds of gutters. Life will supply you with gutters.
