Dan Jenkins Quotes
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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I learn something in the interviews from time to time.
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What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
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If you look at my career, doing albums with Norah Jones, Justin Timberlake, Gucci Mane and Lil Wayne or KRS-One and Jean Grae, I can't be pigeonholed.
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When I come home from a shoot, I'd rather reheat food I've made than eat takeout.
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Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.
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Never met Levinson. Ever. He directed those American Express spots for us for Seinfeld, and I was off on some guest spot that I didn't even want to do... and I got talked into doing it.
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Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their work, and some corporation, some CEO, some branding entity was saying to you, 'Well, you can do that, but you've got to remove this aspect of your work.' There would no longer be that purity anymore.
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I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.
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Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.
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I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.
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I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.
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What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.
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Doing a TV show is different because it's more of a TV version of something. A more focused take on things.
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I like writing about biology, not doing it.
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I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.
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College wasn't something I saw myself doing.
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When anybody goes to L.A. from London, there's always this slight sense of, 'What are you doing? Who do you think you are? It's never gonna happen.' It's the classic, good-natured British cynicism.
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People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding — a thing which is rather surmised and never spoken than known and clothed in words.
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I'm the girl next door, not the sex symbol.
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We absolutely need diversity in game designers. And not just diversity of gender, but diversity of cultures, of ethnicity, of sexuality. If we want to reach beyond the audience we have we've got to bring in more players, and to bring in more players we've got to bring in people who might be able to reach those players.
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What we really need the poet's and orator's I help to keep alive in us is not, then, the common and gregarious courage which Robert Shaw showed when he marched with you, men of the Seventh Regiment. It is that more lonely courage which he showed when he dropped his warm commission in the glorious Second to head your dubious fortunes, negroes of the Fifty-fourth. That lonely kind of courage (civic courage as we call it in times of peace) is the kind of valor to which the monuments of nations should most of all be reared.
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I'd rather be doing something than not doing something.
