Jeff Baena Quotes

My first job after graduating was working with Robert Zemeckis. I got a job a week after graduating and moving to L.A. So I got to work on 'What Lies Beneath' and 'Castaway' as a PA, which is basically like a gopher.

Jeff Baena

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I was very shy and I was very introverted as a kid, but whenever I set foot on stage, I kind of opened up, and I think a lot of kids need an outlet to express their creativity. And a lot of kids are scared to do that if there's not a safe environment for that.

Jeremy Jordan

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For adults to enjoy something, they need to have intellectual stimulation, something that's related to real life.

Jenova Chen

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Just to have the opportunity to play an American in America is a dream come true for me.

Andrew Lincoln

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I think actors tend to be in their element when they are pushed out of their comfort zone.

Matthew Lewis

Comfort ZoneThinkComfortOutZone

I'm absolutely convinced of that. Israel is the representative of the United States in that part of the world. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language.

John Pilger

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Our economic model allows us to invest a disproportionate amount in our food costs. We have a very efficient system: customers go through a single line, the people who serve you are the ones who make the food, and our menu board is not cluttered.

Steve Ells

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With 'Fate's Right Hand,' I think I reached a level of completeness in forming and articulating ideas at around the same time I reached a place where I could match it with my singing voice. It was a kind of coming together.

Rodney Crowell

TimeTogetherIdeasSingingThink

I have never had a fear of white people.

Ron Stallworth

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There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.

Russell Baker

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People don't realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn't change that. Fame doesn't change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it's just a different kind of problems.

Dolly Parton

ChangeBusinessMoneyPeopleMeaning

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.

Thucydides

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Sometimes I lose my temper.

Noam Chomsky

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