Jon Tenney Quotes

I toured around the country and met all these Broadway producers who put me in all these Neil Simon plays like 'Brighton Beach Memoirs' and 'Biloxi Blues.'

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• There isn't any amount of money that could tempt me to promote something that I didn't believe in.

  

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• Practices were tough.

  

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• I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.

  

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• No foreigner has a place asking another people, another country, to change their constitution.

  

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• What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.

  

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• 'Die Antwoord' just has a nice ring to it.

  

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• All the reasons that have made software so successful are beginning to happen with hardware. So much can be done so quickly, prototyped so rapidly, and the costs are so low.

  

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• I try to stay focused.

  

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• I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.

  

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• I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is.

  

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• I have no privacy anymore.

  

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• It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

  

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• You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.

  

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• The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

  

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• Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.

  

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• Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

  

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• The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.

  

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• I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

  

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• Indeed, there is an attack against things Christian in America. We see it in the movies, on TV, in the schools, in the universities, in the public arena, in the courts, and even within some church circles.

  

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• Headlining can be sort of solitary - you're sort of on your own out there, and you start to feel for a change.

  

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• I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.

  

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• I think people, for the most part, actually want what they think is best.

  

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• I grew up on the back of a motorcycle - my dad didn't have a car until I was a teenager.

  

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• I toured around the country and met all these Broadway producers who put me in all these Neil Simon plays like 'Brighton Beach Memoirs' and 'Biloxi Blues.'

  

  Jon Tenney
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