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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As an instructor, you must be able to distinguish between poor performance caused by lack of ability or aptitude on the part of the student and poor performance caused by lack of effort. You should treat the first with patience and the latter with firmness. You must never apply sarcasm and ridicule.
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It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.
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I'm afraid Dr. Mondrick chose an unfortunate publicity device. After all, the theory of human evolution is no longer front page news. Every known detail of the origin of mankind is extremely important to such a specialist as Dr. Mondrick, but it doesn't interest the man in the street - not unless it's dramatized.
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There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.
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There is magic in Scotland. It's country with a lot of pride and bravery. I feel lucky to have been born into that.
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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.'
