Jeff Daniels Quotes
The older you get, and the more you're in this business, the more you kind of feel like, 'Why don't we just do it my way?'
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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I spent years studying the teachings of Patanjali, and he reminded us several thousand years ago that when we are steadfast - which means that we never slip in our abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward others - then all living creatures cease to feel enmity in our presence.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
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When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.
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I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to create my own comedy. But I still love doing stand-up and will probably be doing it forever. I'd love to be an old guy who can't really walk, can't really stand-up, and I have to sit on the stool and tell jokes.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.
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I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.
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My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was basically a mini-masterclass for acting on film at a time when all you could probably see were my eyebrows bouncing up and down on screen.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
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We gave the world dab fever!
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Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.
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It's so important for business leaders to discover what their purpose is. In the days when the business seems overwhelming, or you aren't certain you can continue, it is your purpose that will compel you to push through.
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I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That's why I like to shop with my children; they'll always tell me the truth.
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I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something back on film, and that affects what they put on the paper the next time.
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I do not have one theme for each season, I just try to make beautiful clothes all year round.
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The older you get, and the more you're in this business, the more you kind of feel like, 'Why don't we just do it my way?'
