Jeffrey Zeldman Quotes
My daughter loves stories about my childhood, and we both love discussing women's issues. She's a wise and mature ten-year-old.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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I'm very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.
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There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.
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If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
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The good news is world population growth rate decreases systematically and is expected to reach zero by 2050, thanks to urbanisation and women's education.
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I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.
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I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.
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You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.
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I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.
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Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving.
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Other wars end eventually in victory, defeat or exhaustion, but the war between men and women goes on forever.
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My daughter loves stories about my childhood, and we both love discussing women's issues. She's a wise and mature ten-year-old.
