Jeff Daniels Quotes
I just never did buy this idea that you have to live in Los Angeles to be an actor. I didn't see that as a requirement in my job description.
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
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I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
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The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.
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If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.
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I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.
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Sports, as a media property, is increasingly valuable because it's something you have to have live. As a result, we're a better touch point for sponsors and advertisers because our commercials typically don't get zapped out.
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As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?
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It used to be that when an actress reached thirty, she was considered almost washed up.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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I'm unemployable in any other capacity.
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In order to make reforms sustainable, the Greek economy needs the space to return to growth and start creating jobs again.
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Good design should be honest.
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When they sold me on 'Supergirl', I went and sat down with Andrew Kreisberg and Greg Berlanti, and they described the character to me. Greg Berlanti used a couple of music theater references to kind of explain who the character was. They threw up Chris Pratt in 'Guardians of the Galaxy' as a reference point.
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Each day we choose to live the legacy we want to leave.
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Life for the unwell is discontinuous and unpredictable. Things just come out of nowhere. People try but mostly do a lousy job of taking care of you.
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I just never did buy this idea that you have to live in Los Angeles to be an actor. I didn't see that as a requirement in my job description.
