Matthew Weiner Quotes
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It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
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There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.
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Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.
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As Senator, I will always put the health and safety of New Hampshire's families first.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.
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In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
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I had my moments when I got very frightened that I would not recover.
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I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.
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Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.
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Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
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I really, really, really love my job, so it's not like I'm trying to quit wrestling to do movies. They just all seemed like cool things to do. I mean, I'd love to be the bad guy in an action movie because then people would get to see another side of me they don't get to see.
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All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people.
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It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.
