John Slattery Quotes
I like to try the scene over and over, but given the confines of television, I don't have that option.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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I think it's just important to be able to keep things to myself and to have these moments that can't be - where I don't put them out and feel like they could be misunderstood, you know?
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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.
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When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.
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Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.
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Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'
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Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.
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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
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I am not overlooking any mail. I'm looking at all of it. I even wrote back to the Viagra people.
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I went on iTunes and looked at versions of Christmas songs. Everyone has done them!
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People who know very little about ancient Egypt are most likely, if they know anything at all, to have at least a vague idea about the Pharaoh Akhenaten and be able to recognize the face of his beautiful wife, Nefertiti.
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We have a human rights interest. Then there is the immigration problem. The human-rights violations have caused people to take to boats and flood not only the United States, but other countries in the region, creating great instability.
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It's my impression that I've done every job that I've been asked to do.
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I listen to a lot of Solange. I love old-school as well.
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I could live a thousand years and still not know everything, still not have tried anything.
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One of the things about animal rights, which is not the only thing that I care about in this world, is that your money can bring success. I see results.
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I've got nothing to prove
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For writing, I get up early in the morning - 5 o'clock, 4:30. I'm a morning person... So I try to do it while people are asleep. The mornings are the nicest.
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I think the pitching situation is a huge, huge difference. But I also think the youth of that team is an asset. We had a lot of guys with a lot of scars on them.
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There are albums that I listen to religiously just because I'm such a big fan: any Bruce Springsteen album, or old George Strait albums because the songwriting's so strong.
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I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.
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Where I come from, a lot of people didn't have money, but they didn't have gangs or drugs either.
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I believe that we need to set conditions to close the detention facility at Guantanamo. This includes retaining the option to transfer detainees from this facility elsewhere... It is in the U.S.'s national security interest to do so.
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I like to try the scene over and over, but given the confines of television, I don't have that option.
