Jeff Gutt Quotes
I know what kind of artist I want to be, what I'm capable of, what I'm not capable of.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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I love to push myself.
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die a little. This sounds like a subtle, poetic notion. It's not. In American legal and cultural tradition, one essential privilege of citizenship is not having to prove it on demand.
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A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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I was never really that interested in the punk movement. I was a blues guy: I liked Motown, James Brown.
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Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.
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I had people at Perrysburg High School in my life in Perrysburg who believed in me and told me I could do anything I wanted too, and I foolishly believed them.
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I'm a huge fan of the first 'Independence Day.' It is amazing. When it came out in 1995, just how explosive and big it was... I loved it.
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Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
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Sell your intellectual property based on a track record of success and innovation.
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I'm an honest guy.
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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
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If you want to join the Republican party, they have to let you in. There's nothing they can do about it. I mean, if Republicans will take Al D'Amato, they'll take anybody.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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I know what kind of artist I want to be, what I'm capable of, what I'm not capable of.
