Jeffrey Tambor Quotes
I lost my moorings. But you know the great thing about acting? It's all part of the gig. You get to put it in your work.
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People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
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I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work.
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President Obama, like every other leader on Earth, is still going to be looking out for national and economic interests. States don't cease to be states overnight just because they get a great visionary as their new president.
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People have the problem of denial. This is one of the things I learned in Lebanon. Everybody who left Beirut when the war started, including my parents, said, 'Oh, its temporary.' It lasted 17 years! People tend to underestimate the gravity of these situations. That's how they work.
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Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
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If I could never work again and I could just listen to music and walk, I'd be very, very happy.
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My life is not that glamorous. I actually live a pretty simple life, really. I just work. I don't have time to do all these glamorous things. I just do my thing, just work.
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I've never seen hard work fail.
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Red Interactive, the digital advertising agency, is a real, systemic kind of business, as opposed to a one-off thing. We can help advertisers frustrated by old media find clients they can work with.
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I'm so happy that I was able to make it to 120 games for Germany; 175 games would have been possible. I've had many great moments, but particularly the way the fans supported me and the road to the final in Rio.
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The year that 'Lost' started and premiered was, without a doubt, the most miserable year of my life. The level of despair and anguish that I was feeling; I was clinically depressed, and anyone that you talked to who knew me at the time will tell you that.
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Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work.
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You cannot work and be at home with your child. But you want both.
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War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.
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I was told it might be quite difficult to conceive, so it really was a great blessing when my pregnancy suddenly happened. I had been diagnosed years ago with polycystic ovarian syndrome, which can affect your fertility - but luckily, in my case, it didn't.
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My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.
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Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.
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We don't live in a jazz world, unfortunately. I think if I had lived in a jazz world, I would have done OK. I'm not sure I would have done great. I'm a lover of jazz music, so I would have been happy, don't get me wrong. I go to jazz concerts like the biggest jazz fan in world. The drag is that I don't play jazz for a living.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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The metaphor I've used is... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets.
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I don't design down to a price.
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One of the things that kept me out of trouble was doing something creative - creativity can't be judged.
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I lost my moorings. But you know the great thing about acting? It's all part of the gig. You get to put it in your work.
