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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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 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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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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I first learned the power of trust in the CIA. There is no question that when I joined the Agency as a covert operations officer, it was still run along the 'old boys' network' model.
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The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.
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One of the most difficult parts of 'The Trans List' was coming up with a list of 11 people. For me, what was important was to ensure that we were as diverse as possible across a lot of different intersections.
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Always build. If you start at fever pitch, there's nowhere to go.
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I want to create an environment where I can create technology, get it into the hands of someone to market it, and move on to other technologies so I can keep innovating. I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state, and make that an enabler to get to the next state. It's every researcher's fantasy.
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You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.
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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.
