Jeffrey Donovan Quotes
I don't think an actor's job is to be recognized. I think an actor's job is to facilitate the writing in a way that changes the way people think. No other business does that.

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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
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A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
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I have a great office.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
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We need to honor our troops who served and show our support by giving our men and women who served the best health care, the best educational opportunities, and the best job training available. They deserve nothing less.
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People are starting to reflect upon the power of emotions on illness and I have always felt a direct connection between emotion and body. It is fascinating that neurologists are starting to tell their patients that yes, they are sick, the symptoms are there, but it is probably happening because an emotion is not coming out the way it could and should.
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People say to me, ‘How do I know if a word is real?’ You know, anybody who’s read a children’s book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it. That makes it real.
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I am particularly drawn to the form of meditation called Japa. I know it works.
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I don't think an actor's job is to be recognized. I think an actor's job is to facilitate the writing in a way that changes the way people think. No other business does that.