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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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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My life is nothing but pressure. All pressure. This pressure is like a heaviness. It's always on top of me, this heaviness. It's always there since I'm a kid. Other people wake up in the morning, 'A new day! Ah, up and at 'em!' I wake up, the heaviness is waiting for me nice. Sometimes I even talk to it. I say [adopts cheerful voice] 'Hi, heaviness!' and the heaviness looks back at me, [in an ominous growl] 'Today you're gonna get it good. You'll be drinking early today.'
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Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you - you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.
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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.
