Dan Webster Quotes
When you wait to the last minute, you rush to get things done, and the closer you get to the deadline, the less options you have.
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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I'd done 'Reservoir Dogs,' and I was very beside myself.
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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
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I did not even look at the scoreboard when my routine was done in 1976.
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Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
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Well, actually, I manage a couple of stock portfolios or funds or whatever you want to call 'em, and I think I've done relatively well with them.
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If we had a party every time someone died on 'The Following,' we'd never get anything done.
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What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big, epic things that you can't really explore in other situations.
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There are only three outs an inning, and they should be treasured. Give one away, and you're making everything harder for yourself.
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Sometimes I feel like an impostor, and I have to remind myself, 'You are able to do this.' I look at the books on the shelf that have my name on them to remind myself I have done it before and, likely, I can do it again.
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Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.
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I think our sense as actors of what we've just done - whether or not it be in an audition - is usually really not connected to any truth. I'm always asking for more takes and more goes. I think I just need to shut up and listen.
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I'm amazed by the potential of more companies employing integrated philanthropic initiatives at earlier stages in their life cycle. What if this were done on an even more massive scale? Consider what would happen if a top-tier venture-capital firm required the companies in which it invested to place 1% of their equity into a foundation serving the communities in which they do business.
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How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?
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I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
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Books tell you more about their owners than the owners do.
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When you wait to the last minute, you rush to get things done, and the closer you get to the deadline, the less options you have.
