Jeff Merkley Quotes
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What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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One of the fine moments in 1940s film is no longer than a blink: Bogart, as he crosses the street from one bookstore to another, looks up at a sign.
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I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.
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I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business, and I still have stuff to do at their house.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I would love to work with Matt Damon.
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My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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It's going to be over soon, so I don't really have time to get busy.
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I wanted to write a food book, but I'm not a chef or an expert on culinary matters, to put it mildly.
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My other Main Man is Muhamed Ali, for the obvious reasons.
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I'll invent a lie. Ricky Gervais has done anything interesting since 'The Office'. There's a lie right there.
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I spent my whole life playing sports and training and pushing myself to the limits.
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The most important thing is that sometimes you have to go through hard times to get to the good stuff.
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Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half the human race to misery.
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Making films is hard. Awesome, but hard.
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Full Circle integrates the indigenous and modern practices, bringing individuals, community and organizations together as indispensable collaborators realizing a co-creative, sustainable and fulfilling future.
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People probably thought I was scary, but I was just uncomfortable with attention and tended to be a little closed off, except with friends. I learned to embrace the attention.
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My parents were really, really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.
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Budgets are nothing if not statements of priorities.
