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Never Quotes
Quotes on what never happens.
This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable. Related reading includes Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, but never less than they thought we were capable of.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's never going to get better than working opposite an actor like Jeff Bridges. That's as good as it gets. I don't even know what to refer to him as. He's just a great guy. He's iconic on his own merits.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really never had any thought about being a legitimate actor, like a stage performer. I wanted to make movies. I wanted to do television and make movies.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never afraid of hard work.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a weird way, I never wanted - I don't consider myself a very good writer. I consider myself okay; I don't consider myself great. There's Woody Allen and Aaron Sorkin. There's Quentin Tarantino. I'm not ever gonna be on that level. But I do consider myself a good filmmaker.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love my hometown, but 'Leave Fast' is the way I felt when I was 17, 18 - it's that fear that I'd never be able to do something else.
- Government Spending
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- Nov 07, 2020
A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
- Greatness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love working with really early stage startups where the outcome is still in doubt. Maybe they'll go on to greatness, or maybe they'll never get off the runway at all.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you ask a founder how their company is doing, they always say, 'Oh it's great. We're totally crushing it,' and that's almost never true.
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- Nov 07, 2020