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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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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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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Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
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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 there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.
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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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As a youngster I used to try to pick up any bits of wisdom about the guitar I could. It's not like now where you have books and books about every aspect of anything. Any little pearl of wisdom was welcome back then.
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I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
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We cannot sit still and see the dear Burmans, flesh and blood like ourselves and, like ourselves, possessed of immortal souls that will shine forever in heaven or burn forever in hell - we cannot see them go down to perdition without doing our very utmost to save them. And thanks be to God, our labors are not in vain.
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I have Netflix, but I don't watch television.
