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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Music has always been a huge part of my life.
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Happiness Is A Warm Gun not about heroin. A gun magazine was sitting there with a smoking gun on the cover and an article that I never read inside called 'Happiness Is a Warm Gun.' I took it right from there. I took it as the terrible idea of just having shot some animal.
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The person who, let us say, expects generosity from a bank, efficient flexibility from a government agency, open-mindedness from a religious institution will be disappointed. In each purview the notions represent immorality. The poor fool might as quickly discover love among the mantises.
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When things did go wrong for the IRA, when civilians were killed, I tried to put it in context, not defend it.
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I love making the backstory for myself. I think it's important.
