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?'Jeff Daniels
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
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.
Wayne Dyer -
You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
Ralph Steadman -
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.
Daniel Gillies -
Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
J. R. Smith -
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!
Lake Bell
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The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
Gary Larson -
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.
Harmony Korine -
I must stick with Chinese language films.
Zhang Yimou -
Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.
Dan Savage -
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.
Adam DeVine -
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.
Jack White The White Stripes
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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.
Irvine Welsh -
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.
Iggy Pop -
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.
Eddie Redmayne -
A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
Oliver Herford -
We gave the world dab fever!
Quavo Migos -
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.
Karen Allen
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I really don't know anything about music.
Sia LSD -
Life would certainly be easier if we all came equipped with our own personal FAQ lists. When we meet someone, we could pass them a business card with the list on the back, and then step back and let them read before we tried to talk.
Jeff Lindsay -
I don't think an actor's job is to be recognized. I think an actor's job is to facilitate the writing in a way that changes the way people think. No other business does that.
Jeffrey Donovan -
We are filmmakers, and we are specifically trying to entertain people.
Mads Mikkelsen -
Short ribs in the middle of a hamburger? That was pretty groundbreaking.
Alex Guarnaschelli -
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?'
Jeff Daniels