Jeffrey DeMunn Quotes
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
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I love to feel glamourous. I love to have other women feel glamourous.
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I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that would be great.' And I was about five!
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No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
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Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.
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If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.
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The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
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Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my good-only they were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?
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When the world wide war is over and done And the dream of peace comes through We'll all be drinking some free bubble up And eating some rainbow stew.
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To be a working writer is the holy grail, where you don't have three other jobs on top of that.
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The beginning is always today.
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Portion control is a real problem. My husband and I always split one appetizer and one entree. I'm sure waiters hate us.
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It is natural to die as to be born.
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I had to turn down a part in 'Empire of the Sun.' It would have paid £15,000, which was a year's earnings for me then, but I was offered a season at the 'National Theatre.'
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There's a lot of people over time who have brought out all these funky records that everybody has started jumping on like a catch phrase... When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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The action stuff is only good if you get the character stuff in there as well. Sometimes that get lost in amongst all the trying to make stuff blow up.
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When I was a kid, we would get McDonalds on Christmas Eve, and that was a big deal because the closest one to the south side of Chicago was a 35 minute drive away. I remember opening the bag and smelling those fries, and even now when I smell them, it reminds me of Christmas Eve.
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I'm an artist, and I like art that gets people talking, good or bad. Criticism is good, too.
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When we first started, we wanted our music videos to be a part of the whole story, but it was never something that we would think about during the writing of the song. It would always be just getting to work with young, ambitious directors and screenwriters that would want to try something out.
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I love making the backstory for myself. I think it's important.
