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Tommy Lee Jones Quotes

I've worked with some very good directors and some very bad ones. I learned a great deal from both. From the bad, untalented people, you learn what not to do. And when you work with very highly talented people, you want to emulate them.

Tommy Lee Jones

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: September 15, 1946

Topics

Work Good Great People Learn You

I've been a Mac guy for almost my entire adult life. I wrote my first college papers on a typewriter, but by the end of my freshman year - almost 20 years ago - I was on an IBM PC. Then, in 1984, I found the Mac, and I never looked back.

John Battelle

Life College End Year Back Never

Americans like buying American vs. buying from Chavez or buying from the Middle East.

John Catsimatidis

American Buying Middle Middle East

I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Writing Been Making Stories Before

From the law firm's perspective, billing by the hour has a certain appeal: it shifts risk from the firm to the client in case the work takes longer than expected. But from a client's perspective, it doesn't work so well. It gives lawyers an incentive to overstaff and to overresearch cases.

Robert Pozen

Work Perspective Law Lawyers Risk

My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a little bit like me, although he had no beard. He had the appearance of a very elegant British-looking man.

Michael Haneke

Good Father Relationship Man Me

Well, excuuuuuse me!

Steve Martin

Me Well

Business is global. Countries need to react to that; taxes need to be paid where profit arises.

Mo Ibrahim

Business Profit React Need Taxes

I like working, and I like the freedom where all that matters is my work.

Jason Clarke

Work Freedom Matters Where Working

Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.

Josh Billings

Men Economy Pennies Return Drop Get

'Dreams From My Father' reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after they're dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader.

Jonathan Raban

Father Dreams Time Mind Political

It is evident that not all people that have the confidence of the prime minister are the same ones that have the confidence of the head of state.

Jose Eduardo dos Santos

Confidence People Same Head Prime

I think that each character has fascinated and interested me enough to want to play him.

Derek Jacobi

Character Me Think Enough Play Want