- People
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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
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, you run around the house pretending to be a superhero, and now to be doing it as a job, I feel very lucky.
- Foundation
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- Nov 07, 2020
All along, I did what I was comfortable doing, which was to play the music I enjoyed and try to stretch the parameters a bit. Country and bluegrass and folk were my foundation.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Atari collapsed in '84, and I went freelance, and that was when I started spreading out and doing my own thing. I really cut loose and did a game called 'Trust and Betrayal', which was the first game solely about interpersonal relationships.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writing at all until I was about 35 years old.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was living in upstate New York, in Kingston - small town, no comedy scene except for my friends and I doing these DIY shows and whatnot. And we put together this thing called the 'Altercation Punk Rock Comedy Tour.'
- Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020
The goal is doing stand-up on TV somewhere, which is what I'm working on. Something on latenight or Comedy Central, but - I dunno, something. It could happen, it could not happen.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was interesting doing impressions as somebody else doing impressions. Normally, I'll do a voice, and it's me doing the voice. To have to be Robin Williams doing the voice was an interesting sort of study in getting into somebody's head.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
With any film, you're doing basically the same thing. You're trying to translate ideas into action.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 20th century was all about hierarchies: if you want to create something, if you want to start a country, create a product, whatever it is. Your goal is to create a highly efficient hierarchical model, scale it, because that's what the competition's doing.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
As you move up a traditional, sort of bureaucratic structure, there's a certain point at which you realize, 'Well, I'm not really on the implementation or execution side - I'm not on the battlefield. I'm an operations person who's overseeing multiple units that are out on the ground doing the job.'
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020