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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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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I think we basically saw that the messaging space is bigger than we'd initially realized, and that the use cases that WhatsApp and Messenger have are more different than we had thought originally.
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I lived in Paris for six months when I was sixteen. It was a fend-for-yourself environment.
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Social justice is what drives me; it's why I'm here.
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The nuclear weapons were not useful for the achievement of political objectives.
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He was annoyed 'cause I didn't say that he'd written one line of this song 'Taxman.' But I also didn't say how I wrote two lines of 'Come Together' or three lines of 'Eleanor Rigby,' you know? I wasn't getting into any of that. I think, in the balance, I would have had more things to be niggled with him about than he would have had with me!
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By cultivating an interest in a few good books which contain the result of the toil or the quintessence of the genius of some of the most gifted thinkers of the world, we need not live on the marsh and in the mists. The slopes and ridges invite us.
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I love making the backstory for myself. I think it's important.
