Jeff Dunham Quotes
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.
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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.
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I missed the television train at some point. I don't know what happened, but now I've created a complex about it. I'm missing out on what everybody's watching, and now I can't even begin to think about starting to watch a television show because it's been so long. I don't even have a Netflix account.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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What I have to outline is action and plot because I'm not particularly good at that.
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Through constant familiarity, we can definitely establish new behavior patterns, using our tendency to form habits to our advantage. If we make a steady effort, I think we can overcome any form of negative conditioning and make positive changes in our lives. But we need to remember that genuine change doesn't happen overnight.
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Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly "forgot it" and named their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet.
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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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I think all the garbage in the world is thanks to a very small handful of idiots.
