- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doing Quotes
On action, effort and the discipline of doing the work.
These lines describe doing in its many forms: the overlap between film and television production, the uncertainty built into research, and committing to work you believe in even without much recognition. For more, see our Action quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Lunch
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very good at doing is creating stories with strong movement and plots that carry the movie as it goes along.'
- Pride
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've all done actions in our lives where we compromise what we believe in. And if we keep doing it, there's no way back, no pride to hold on to.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.
- Hardest Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hardest thing for a chef is to become comfortable with what you do. Not to be too neurotic and worried with what you are doing and how wrong or right you are.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was no Internet, not even many cookbooks except the old reference books. So we would sit down at night, a group of six chefs, and we'd exchange recipes and each talk about how we were doing things. It was the only way to learn new ideas.
- Nov 07, 2020
I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I moved to the city I spent every Saturday sitting in church wishing I could be living on my own, doing what I wanted.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, sometimes the little victories that I have throughout the season are not necessarily obvious on the track. Maybe they're another aspect of what I'm doing, winning little victories here and there to get everything in line to be able to perform from top to bottom on race day.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got to be out doing a million things. That's how I find stories. That's how I get the relationships and get the projects that I get with the writers, the directors.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.
- Ignore
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- Nov 07, 2020