Jeffrey Dean Morgan Quotes
I'm not trying to be an action star, and I'm not trying to be a romantic-comedy guy.
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they're right.
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I did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. We're cutting back next year to about 40. We generate money for an organization called Mercy Corps.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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It's pretty funny, just driving by in a cab, and you see a huge billboard of yourself on the side of a hotel, like a 100-by-100 poster hanging up.
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I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
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I don't think you should limit what you read.
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In terms of script, Bollywood should learn from South Indian scripts. Not talking about the fights and action, I am talking about the drama bit.
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Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
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Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.
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If Kate Moss hadn't been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.
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You've got to trust people. And because I am a control freak, sometimes that's difficult for me, because I want to micro-manage absolutely everything. I can't hand over. But I'm trying to do that more.
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English history turned on Henry VIII and his desires, his whims almost. And it was down to Cromwell to make those desires happen. He was the guy that fixed it. He was also the guy that eased Henry's conscience. Because Henry VIII had an enormous, tender conscience and great theological knowledge.
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Superficial nonconformism... leaves our rational structures indifferent. Questions of moral action and of physical appearance are increasingly irrelevant; they are categorized either as justified self-expression or conversely as suitable subjects for agitated public debate. In either case they are harmless vents.
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Is Brooklyn in the house? Without a doubt, I'm the rapper with clout everybody yap about.
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To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.
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I'm not trying to be an action star, and I'm not trying to be a romantic-comedy guy.
