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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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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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
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I do my laundry on a weekly basis.
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For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.
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New Mexico is my home. It has never been anything but home. The ranch has rivers and canyon, everything imaginable. I can ride, hunt and fish. At the same time, ranching is grueling, difficult work. It`s like acting, to be successful at it, you have to work hard. I take it very seriously.
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Without the faintest possibility of finding a job, I decided to devote myself to literature: it was about time to find out what I was worth as a writer.
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If I had five minutes to live, I don't think I'd be bothered singing a song. I'd be dead, so it won't really matter. I'd have a glass of wine and a cigarette.
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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.
