Daniel Finkelstein Quotes
You may wonder why a question of manners has got me so exercised. It's because I believe in a simple rule. If you see a person you know behave unreasonably to someone else, you can bet your last pound that before long he'll be behaving like that to you. Life Believe Simple Long Advice
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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The good parts about being a public company are increased discipline, increased execution and increased transparency to make sure that you are really building a company for a hundred years.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.
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When I was just starting out, I had two choices: I could be the beautiful girl on the main man's arm as decoration, or I would have to do a little independent movie to get any depth in the female character.
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My point is that, over the years, I've taught five thousand people acting and lately I have a lot of energy on these kids, having the same break I had as a high school girl.
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I can tell you who I'd like to work with as far as rock legends. Definitely Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters. Of course Linkin Park. Actually, I already worked with Travis Barker on a couple of things. Gotta let the drummer get some. Possibly Paramore, Hayley Williams.
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I know why jobs go, and I know why they come.
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There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a daily basis.
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Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.
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When a young woman tells me that she wants to become and actor, I say, 'No, be a writer. Or go to business school and learn how to run a studio.' The only real change will come from behind the scenes.
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People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
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Women, can't live with them, can't live without them.
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I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.
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All I know is that skating is getting better, the guys are getting better throughout the whole age range.
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Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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I know I have trouble watching my own films.
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The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.
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You may wonder why a question of manners has got me so exercised. It's because I believe in a simple rule. If you see a person you know behave unreasonably to someone else, you can bet your last pound that before long he'll be behaving like that to you. Life Believe Simple Long Advice
