Jonathan Swift Quotes
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We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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My parents are so cool, so chill, super hip. They know what's up.
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I don't know of any plans to remaster the Mr Mister catalog.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
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Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.
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A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
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Music, for me, is just about where you're at, and that's always changing.
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Low income persons in need of social housing should be housed in more prosperous areas to avoid placing an extra burden on the poorer areas and to redress the balance in terms of housing, redressing the balance in terms of schooling.
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Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them.
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Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.
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I did green screen for the first time! I wouldn't like to do a whole movie of green screen, though. You kind of forget the plot a little - like being in a Broadway play and doing it over and over and forgetting your line halfway through.
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Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.
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When we make the show, we are always talking about how the show is really in between what we make and what the viewer thinks of it.
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When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmother.
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For I must write to The Times tonight, and save the world from sin.
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Only the free mind knows what Love is.
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My mom decided that she wanted to put the mirror ball trophy on the coffee table in the center of our living room. When people walk in, it's kind of like, 'Uh.' It's a little weird. Maybe we should put it in the corner or something.
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...the scent of overpriced coffee was like the armpit of God.
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You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.
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I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.
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Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.
