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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A lady once asked him how he came to define 'pastern', the knee of a horse: instead of making an elaborate defence, as might be expected, he at once answered, 'Ignorance, Madam, pure ignorance.'
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I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.
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Imagination is the air of mind.
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When she opened her eyes, Veronika did not think 'this must be heaven'. Heaven would never use a fluorescent tube to light a room, and the pain - which started a fraction of a second later - was typical of the Earth. Ah, that Earth pain - unique, unmistakable.
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In the cafe bathroom drinking free tap water Thinking; "Damn, I should've been a better father to my daughter"
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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.
