Jeff Duncan Quotes

The Census Bureau can ask citizens very invasive questions, and if they don't respond, the government shows up at their door and threatens them with a fine.

Jeff Duncan

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When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer. That's a little bit different than when you sit down and write something to satisfy yourself, because then you're the employer.

Joel Coen

JobYourselfWritingExpectations

I had six silly tattoos done when I was young and I bitterly regret them. I've thought about laser surgery, but that leaves a scar, so I'm just leaving them.

Andre Benjamin

RegretThoughtSillyDoneYoung

My earliest memories are sitting on the beach at Blackpool, and I know that if I went back, it would be horrible. I know what Blackpool's like - it's nothing like I imagined it was as a child.

Robert Smith

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No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it his duty to defend the savagery of the past.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society.

Matt LeBlanc

I AmSocietyFindPlaceEarthWhich

A lot of people, including me, are worried that inequality will lead to bad things.

Angus Deaton

PeopleMeBadInequalityWillLead

If you're a waiter, the worst thing you can do is go to work resenting your job. This will sound trite - but it's the reality, and part of my personality - yet when I was a waiter, I tried to be the best waiter, and when I was a bingo-caller I tried to be the best bingo-caller.

Russell Crowe

WorkBestPersonalityJobReality

A lot of people stop short. They don't actually die but they say, 'Right I'm old, and I'm going to retire,' and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.

Mary Wesley

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With television, sometimes the writing is continuous and happening at every moment, and you'll get new pages at the last moment. We have to incorporate that into what it is that we're doing.

Michael Stuhlbarg

MomentWritingDoingYouTelevision

What interests me most are the emotional lives of the people. If I don't have that, it's not worth doing, frankly.

Christopher Guest

PeopleMeDoingWorthEmotional

There is not many tenors in the male category and that makes me stick out.

Bryan White

MeOutStickManyCategoryMakes

I like people who tell stories. I like storytellers. A lot of my songs are misconceived as being auto-biographical when they're not because I write in the first person.

Art Alexakis

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