Jeff Duncan Quotes
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My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
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It's really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five different characters within a season, let alone a week.
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I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.
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'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.
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I'm not really a self-promoter-type person.
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I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.
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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
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There is a very big difference between writing for children and writing for young adults. The first thing I would say is that 'Young Adult' does not mean 'Older Children', it really does mean young but adult, and the category should be seen as a subset of adult literature, not of children's books.
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I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.
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It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn't make me feel good at all.
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One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me... I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.
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And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sittingOn the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door.
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As pointed out in a followup, Real Perl Programmers prefer things to be visually distinct.
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L'offenseur ne pardonne jamais.1
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A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.
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You pass a program and get people dependent on it, making it brutal to get rid of. The key is not letting it get started.
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'Coriolanus' deals with the birth of democracy. And that has been fascinating because I've been talking about politics so much because of 'Borgen.' It's a nice bridge.
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In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same.
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The Federal Reserve Act requires the Federal Reserve to report annually on its operations and to publish its balance sheet weekly.
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With doing the movies I've done I don't think I would be half the person I am today.
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My commitment to refugees comes from a very personal place.
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But for the time being, I've only learned one cake recipe and how to make scrambled eggs.
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I felt the exultancy of a man just released from slavery and ready to set the universe on fire.
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This notion that manmade climate change is happening is wrong.
