Matthew Weiner Quotes
If you've ever had somebody try to sell you something - people who can sell, they really are not manipulating you. They are selling themselves.
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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Parents, teachers, and other school staff need the tools to help these young people early in their lives. And the earlier, the better. It is proven that early action prevents problems later in life.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
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It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.
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We are on parallel paths with the planet. The wants and needs of marine wildlife are our own: we want connection, companionship, a healthy clean environment.
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What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference.
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The music I was making for people not to dance to was the one they were dancing to.
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I try to begin with a strong grasp of my characters. Even if it's schematic, I need it clear in my head who these people are.
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If you've ever had somebody try to sell you something - people who can sell, they really are not manipulating you. They are selling themselves.
