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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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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OK, I'm happy. I'm happy. All right? I'm happy.
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My first two records were influenced by the Beatles and the Beach Boys.
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I think I may have become an actor to hide from myself. You can escape into a character.
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I don't know what it is, but French men love me.
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I will settle down & teach for the rest of my days.
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I still tell a lot of jokes and do a lot of funny comics, but the stuff I like best is the personal stuff. I will still occasionally talk about my job and retail, but it evolved.
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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.
