Jeff Daniels Quotes
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
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I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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They say that our sovereign is above his laws to his pleasure, and he may make it and break it as he pleases, without any distinction. The contrary is true, or else he should not have sworn to keep it.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one - but there is a price.
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I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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I don't like to post fresh standup material, because I want to use it in a special. The stuff I like to post online I like to be off-the-cuff moments.
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All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.
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I don't look at myself as a historical icon, but the reality of it is, yeah, I am playing for history now.
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I actually never liked writing on my own or in school until I'd had my blog for a while and realized I'd been writing every day for years.
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If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.
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Every actor just wants good writing.
