Dan Jenkins Quotes
Kids flew B-17s in daylight bombing raids over Germany in World War II. Kids fought in Korea and Vietnam.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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Awards don't really mean much.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it's fast, and that I like a lot.
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I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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I want to have a long career.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
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Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.
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The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.
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I actually have no style whatsoever. I'm the worst. I have people I talk to, and I say, 'Please tell me how to dress because I don't know what I'm doing.' The biggest thing for me is my mom. I'm like, 'Mom, do I look good?' If she says yes, I'm good to go.
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The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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Sometimes I'll turn the channel and there's the movie and I can honestly say that those last few minutes always fascinate me. It's one of the rare instances when image, music, and drama work effectively.
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There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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Growing up, I wanted to be a journalist. I was in love with Lisa Ling, who's a broadcast journalist and who travels the world. I used to read all of her articles and watch her when she'd go to China or South Africa or Australia. I thought that was the coolest job because she got to travel and tell people's stories.
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Kids flew B-17s in daylight bombing raids over Germany in World War II. Kids fought in Korea and Vietnam.
