Jeff Daniels Quotes

The older you get, and the more you're in this business, the more you kind of feel like, 'Why don't we just do it my way?'

Jeff Daniels

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 19, 1955

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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.

John Burroughs

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I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.

John Cage

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What's another word for Thesaurus?

Steven Wright

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If you enjoy yourself, then people will enjoy you.

Trevor Jackson

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There is no rule of law in Zimbabwe; there's selective application of the rule of law. Patrick Chinamasa, who is the minister of justice, destroyed the independent judiciary.

Roy Bennett

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When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.

Lisa Marie Presley

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I have discovered I cannot dream up characters as incredible as the ones I meet in the wilderness.

Jean Craighead George

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I think personality correction is necessary for successful men, like prime ministers, businessmen, politicians... it's essential that one should keep an eye on one's own personality. You must have seen people in politics who become chief ministers and then pass into oblivion - how egotistical they became and how pathetic they look.

Dilip Kumar

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A part of me is a liberal New Yorker involved in politics and certain attitudes about movies. I kind of lost my indie credibility over 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith.' I know I haven't lost it. I just have to go make an independent movie. I just have to do it. Just for me.

Doug Liman

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We live in a cult of the upgrade right now. There's always something around the corner that will make whatever you think is cool right now feel obsolete.

Colin Trevorrow

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Everybody who knows me is like, 'Dude, you've got to chill out.' I can't not work, given where I want to be.

Columbus Short

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If it's correct to say that there is a closing of minds around the world, story is one of the most powerful agents of reviving the conversation between ideas. Ultimately, that's all stories are trying to do - open the conversation. They cannot give a proscription. It's not clairvoyant art.

Anthony McCarten

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