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Jeff Baena Quotes

I always knew I wanted to make movies since I was around eleven. I never thought of it as wanting to do straight-up comedy. Even now, I don't see things in terms of genre.

Jeff Baena

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: June 29, 1977

Topics

Thought Comedy Now Movies Never See

Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority.

Matthew Green

Authority Way See Through Who Nor

Get more competition into the New Hampshire marketplace, and then we'll find that there will be insurers that will compete on convenience as compared to cost.

Ann McLane Kuster

Competition Find New Will More Cost

I'm a tropical weather cruiser. I like surfing, you know. I like being on the beach.

Michael B. Jordan

Beach Weather You Know Tropical

We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threads, tangled knots and the like. But occasionally, God's light shines through the tapestry, and we get a glimpse of the larger design with God weaving together the darks and lights of existence.

John Piper

Life God Time Light Together Design

As Andy says, being in this band in the early 1980s made you feel like you were part of a pizza. We were always one of the band, one of Duran Duran, or one of the Taylors.

Roger Andrew Taylor

Pizza Feel You Early Band Always

I've always found ways to bend the rules.

Michael Shanks

Rules Bend Always Found Ways

The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy.

Joseph Stiglitz

Policy Shape Public Policy Activity

I've had some wonderful times at the White House. I've been with Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush.

Dom DeLuise

House White Wonderful White House

If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

Christopher Hitchens

Think Political I Can Person Say

The most amazing gift about being a novelist is that you get to pursue your curiosity every day.

Anthony Doerr

Day Amazing Curiosity Gift You Get

In film, it's very important to not allow yourself to get sentimental, which, being British, I try to avoid. People sometimes regard sentimentality as emotion. It is not. Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Ridley Scott

Yourself People Important Sometimes

My first and most loved real novel was 'Little Women.' I identified with the Jo character even though we were opposites. Jo was very strong-minded and brave, and I was shy and kind of a wuss, everyplace but in my own home. I wanted to be Jo. She was my alter ego. I think reading that book gave me courage.

Rhea Perlman

Home Women Character Courage Brave