Jeff MacNelly Quotes
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
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Cerrone is a great opponent. The guy won eight fights straight.
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I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.
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The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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I do Taekwondo and sometimes I paint.
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You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you do have to. There is only so much pie to go around. If you're going to take more than your fair share of pie, as socialists would look at it, then someone else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them.
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Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of springboard for a sense of style, to people who just love putting all that complicated stuff together, brick by brick, on their computers, to people like me who like playing conceptual games and being surprised.
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Take a camel.
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When virtue has slept, she will get up more refreshed.
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The best cartoons have no words at all - just the image pops out.
