Jeff Greene Quotes
There are all these people in this country who are just not participating in the American Dream at all.
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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It's so hard for me to kind of fall in love with comedy, but if something comes my way... I mean, I loved 'Weird,' I thought that was a really fun character.
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I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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As most actors/actresses, I don't like to watch my own movies, either, and I never look at the dailys while filming.
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Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
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I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.
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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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What So Not used to be a lot more dance-y, and now it's becoming a lot more melodic. Flume has always had that melodic thing, but it's starting to become a bit heavier, so it's just difficult to navigate between the two.
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I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
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Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.
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You figure out what your standards are, and I think that's important.
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A good whack on the head usually has the same effect.
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I certainly want people to read what I've written. Yet, and here's that question of economic position, because I have a secure job, I don't need a wide readership to survive. I'm a participant in the indirect economy, what sociological critic Pierre Bourdieu would call the "economic world reversed." I get "paid" by writing whatever I choose. That's a pretty good position to be in, but I don't pretend for a moment that it is not a privileged one.
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I think people should be different. I love people who don't go by the rule that you have to be careful because you're old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.
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People either leave or they stay.
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There are all these people in this country who are just not participating in the American Dream at all.
