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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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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Canada is a broad land - broad in mind, broad in spirit, and broad in physical expanse.
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I live country songs every single day of my life, so thank goodness I decided that was my passion!
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I was once told that I had become too confident and that it made me less likeable. Many successful people will get this at some point, because the people who haven't followed a similar path can be threatened by someone who has and is unabashed about it.
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My parents were all about education. My mother was a librarian - she retired after 30 years - and she made sure that we were always at museums, that we went to plays.
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The women take so little stock In what I do or say They'd sooner leave their cosseting To hear a jackass bray.
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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.
