Chris Wedge Quotes
We had no idea what we were in for when we started Blue Sky. We just had an idea of what we wanted to do. When we got to a point where it seemed impossible, we just kept doing it. After 18 years, we have a lot of it done.
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It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.
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I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I try to make excuses for it, but the truth is I just wasn't with it.
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Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.
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I'm all about the drugstore beauty products. They're affordable and get the job done.
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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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I've done a pretty good job of hitting 18-34-year-old males, and not such a good job of reaching kids. Disney has done a great job of reaching kids, but maybe not the 18-34-year-olds. I figure I can learn a lot from Disney, and maybe, I don't know, they can learn a lot from me.
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By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
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I'm a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I've done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that's just responsible.
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I'd love to do a comedy; that's the one thing I haven't done yet that I really, really want to do.
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I never hated hip-hop. It became the new rock and roll. It became the biggest thing that Africans have ever done in the history of the Americas. Hip-hop put more black Americans on than anything before it. It fed more people. It allowed them to diversify into clothing lines and billion-dollar headphone companies.
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When you wait to the last minute, you rush to get things done, and the closer you get to the deadline, the less options you have.
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As an actor you can't build up proper relationships with the people you work with, because after six months, you're done.
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My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's 'I Remember Sky.' It's probably the saddest song of all time; I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke.
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I'm just going to have to grow old, because I'm too terrified to have anything done.
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Some of the best writing I've done, whether I'm shooting a story or thinking of a script, I write it in my head as I'm running. Running literally jogs my brain.
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I am as passionate about the England team as anyone.
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When I was in college, being a magician was not the classiest thing to be. It was like being a folk singer before Bob Dylan.
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A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
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I couldn't be luckier to wake up every morning and be so excited to get to work, even if it's five in the morning.
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The State is only one of the forms assumed by society in the course of history. Why then make no distinction between what is permanent and what is accidental?
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We had no idea what we were in for when we started Blue Sky. We just had an idea of what we wanted to do. When we got to a point where it seemed impossible, we just kept doing it. After 18 years, we have a lot of it done.
