Jeff Dunham Quotes
I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most of my friends was that I was an only child... I don't think that's why my parents gave me a dummy, at least they've never copped to it.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
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I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.
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Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.
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I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
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I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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Many ribosomes act simultaneously along the mRNA, forming superstructures called polysomes.
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Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.
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The reality is, if you were fortunate to be born to rich parents, you have a better chance of succeeding in life. And that's wrong.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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When I was in high school, I hid in the back seat of an old boyfriend's car when he was out with another girl. He finally found me, but not until after he had made out with her for an hour.
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The dead have need of fairy tales too.
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I do like men and I had, you know, a guy in high school that I wanted to marry desperately. He's the mayor of some small town in Texas. I could be the mayor's wife right now.
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I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.
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I'm an American songwriter, and I write from a very American perspective, and so did the records I grew up listening to.
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I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most of my friends was that I was an only child... I don't think that's why my parents gave me a dummy, at least they've never copped to it.
