Jeffrey DeMunn Quotes
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There's always the tendency to transform the Church into an ethical agency, and of measuring the Church by the yardstick of social and cultural utility.
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I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.
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I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.
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There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
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I have a tendency to think that when you portray baddies in movies, they come out more human than good guys.
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I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.
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I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.
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I am the same on camera as I am off. I can't imagine being any other way.
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I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.
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It's like I've experienced quite a weird and unusual life, you know, being with a mom who's a single parent and struggling with money and things like that. It's really hard. And it brings a lot of other insecurities in life and a lot of other issues in life, in school and a bunch of other things.
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.
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I hate the term 'philanthropist.'
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Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.
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No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.
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Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.
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Whenever I have found myself stuck in the ways I relate to things, I return to nature. It is my principal teacher, and I try to open my whole being to what it has to say.
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I have Netflix, but I don't watch television.
