Jeff Bridges Quotes
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
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When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.
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Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp.
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I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them.
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
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God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
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If I were president of the United States, I'd build a great wall along the Mexican border and not let anybody in.
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We're told all the time to give up everything for love. That's the Western notion of what love is - love conquers all, all you need is love. And there are so many different kinds of outside, conflicting pressures on women.
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Requests for mustache rides were the big common theme, around the time of the release of the season. People were saying how much they hated him, obviously, and how they would kill him or choke him. There were just all kinds of things. You name it, I got it.
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It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.
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This 'Making Mirrors' album is far more personal, even if there's a character element to the sounds I'm working with. Every song on this album I stand behind; I feel like I have a close relationship with them. There are older songs where I can feel myself writing a story, so this is the first album where I'm proud of every lyric.'
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Directing takes a lot of time.
