Eric Weiner Quotes
I would love to think there is a direct relationship between coffee and genius, but they've done studies, and if anything, caffeine probably makes you a little less creative.
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The 'Agent X' set was never boring. During the first few days, I had to adjust to the loud noise on set, which included gun shots and explosions. After we finished filming the season, I realized I missed hearing all the noise and driving on empty freeways.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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I had just 15 days to work on my body for the climactic fight of 'Bodyguard.' And I would work on every muscle of my body two/three times a week. I would have developed a superb body if I had three months, but squeezing it into 15 days can be harmful. Also, as you grow older, your metabolic rate slows down.
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It could be partly my taste. It's just my belief that there are female characters that will benefit from not being vulnerable.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.
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I eat a bit too much; my teeth aren't perfect; I've got eye bags. I look like a normal 39-year-old woman - but in England, no one minds that.
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To see things in the seed, that is genius.
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Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.
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I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good.
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A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You can't make somebody love you the way you want them to love you, it's not a Leave it to Beaver type world. This isn't television. Life's a lot more cruel than that.
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Who has words at the right moment?
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With comics, you don't have to worry so much about budgetary constraints. In film and television, however fanciful you want to be, someone can come up to you and go, 'Okay, this is going to cost X amount of dollars, and we only have so many days to film this.' With graphic novels, you can have that alien invasion you've always wanted to see.
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The great teams find a way to win.
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Passion now begins to wake and whom we desire, we will take then we'll cut them down to the quick love itself the cruelest trick. Moved we are by loves sweet song though it plays not for long we can blow on embers bright till passion outtakes the light.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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If your character doesn't express himself or doesn't feel confident expressing himself, then you don't express yourself.
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I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.
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I would love to think there is a direct relationship between coffee and genius, but they've done studies, and if anything, caffeine probably makes you a little less creative.
