Damon Wayans Quotes
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I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I could not get past the secretaries.
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Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
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I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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I was rubbish at school.
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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
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I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
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There are those people that eat to live and those that live to eat. I am of the latter, as many of you already know. To me, eating is an adventure.
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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Or perhaps - the secret of life is to choose your risks?
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I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often.
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I've yet to use a cellphone, and I've never tweeted or entered Facebook. I try not to go online till my day's writing is finished, and I moved from Manhattan to rural Japan in part so I could more easily survive for long stretches entirely on foot, and every trip to the movies would be an event.
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'I haven't done enough. I don't have solar panels on my house yet. I haven't sorted out the heating, my car's not a Prius, I f--ing fly all the time for my job and I hate it but at the moment I haven't really got a choice, you know, and all these things. The job I'm in is a job that wastes energy left, right and centre. It's madness.' source
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My father is a Jehovah's Witness, and he raised us under a very strict hand.