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That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.
Jeffrey Eugenides
Myself
Will
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Way
Characters
Write
Pick
Pick And Choose
Put
Fair
Fair Amount
Like
Person
Them
Then
Choose
Who
Amount
Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.
Jeffrey Eugenides
Gay
You
Marriage
People
Fate
First
Think
Gay Marriage
Our
Way
Marriages
About
Determines
Having
Potent
Remains
Idea
New
Heads
Like
Terms
Well
Lot
York
Just
New York
Deciding
Used
Actions
Shows
Function
Now
Right
Started
One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.
Jeffrey Eugenides
Quality
Other
More
Writers
Had
He
Like
Because
Than
Literary
Reasons
People don't like to be sold, but they love to buy.
Jeffrey Gitomer
Love
Buy
People
Sold
Like
I would like to feel that I have a range and that it's not just a matter of being a comic actor or a serious actor, because those are really artificial classifications, I think.
Jeffrey Jones
Matter
Think
Range
Those
Would
Feel
Like
Because
Comic
Artificial
Just
Being
Really
Serious
Actor
A company like DreamWorks, all we do is make product. That's all we do. We don't own distribution. We are purely in the creation of content.
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Own
Creation
Distribution
Dreamworks
Purely
Like
Make
Content
Product
Company
When you decide you want to become a television writer, you naively assume it's going to be like the writers on the old 'Dick Van Dyke Show.' You'll write something and they'll just put it on TV. But what you quickly discover is that American network television is television by committee.
Jeffrey Klarik
You
Old
Become
Assume
Television
TV
Van
Something
Network
Network Television
Write
Writer
Writers
Put
Like
Discover
Dick Van Dyke
Quickly
American
Committee
Going
Just
Want
Decide
Dyke
Show
There are popular celebrities, there are unpopular celebrities and then there are the walking dead. You know the walking dead when you see them: they look like Mel Gibson, still striving for drunken charm in an L.A. County mug shot, after getting picked up on a DWI charge that included anti-semitic slurs directed at the police.
Jeffrey Kluger
You
Police
Gibson
Striving
Charge
Unpopular
See
Charm
Directed
Picked
Like
Know
Look
County
Dead
Drunken
Still
Anti-Semitic
Up
Celebrities
Walking
Walking Dead
Getting
After
Them
Then
Shot
Mug
Popular
Included
I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my daughters were born in New York City. That makes them passport-carrying, natural-born, eligible-to-run-for-president Americans. But they're also Mexicans and they like that just fine.
Jeffrey Kluger
Wife
College
City
Fine
Born
Daughters
New
Like
Also
She
Makes
Were
Mexicans
Mexico
American
York
Just
New York
New York City
Them
Here
Is there anything sadder than the foods of the 1950s? Canned, frozen, packaged concoctions, served up by the plateful, three meals per day, in an era in which the supermarket was king, the farmer's market was, well, for farmers, and the word 'locavore' sounded vaguely like a mythical beast.
Jeffrey Kluger
Day
Word
King
Three
Beast
Market
Per
Supermarket
Foods
Mythical
Sadder
Like
Well
Era
Up
Than
Canned
Frozen
Anything
Which
Packaged
Meals
Farmer
Farmers
Served
Vaguely
There's a sort of sibling moratorium when you're establishing yourself as an adult. So much of your energy has to be focused on other things like work and kids. But when people become more settled, siblings tend to regroup because now you're building a new extended family.
Jeffrey Kluger
Work
Family
You
Yourself
People
Building
Become
Energy
Other
Settled
Kids
Focused
Moratorium
More
Tend
Adult
New
Like
Sort
Because
Establishing
Much
Regroup
Your
Now
Extended
Extended Family
Things
Sibling
I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of 'Fox News' every day and stuff like that.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
Day
News
Every Day
Parents
Every
Cincinnati
Stuff
Like
Hours
Up
Five
Six
Ohio
Grew
Really
Dad
Right
Watches
Fox
Fox News
I backpacked around the world and went to places like Mexico City and Pakistan, where I'm like, 'Oh. Things aren't quite as good.'
Jeffrey Skoll
Good
World
City
Like
Around
Mexico
Mexico City
Quite
Oh
Where
Places
Pakistan
Things
My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it!
Jeffrey Tambor
Love
Education
Good
You
Nice
Having
Like
Also
Learn
Audience
How
Audition
Doing
Doing Good
Get
To Love
Act
Rehearsals
Plays
I think I have femininity, I have masculinity, but I get to use all of Jeffrey, and that's very powerful. And this is what I always thought when I went down in my little basement in San Francisco, where I grew up, and daydreamed about being an actor: It felt like this. This is what it felt like.
Jeffrey Tambor
Thought
Down
Think
Francisco
About
Masculinity
Powerful
Like
Felt
Always
Femininity
Up
Very
Get
Being
Where
Grew
San
San Francisco
Little
Use
Actor
Basement
I think I made $55 a week, and it was bliss... I was doing theater. It was all I ever wanted to do. It was so much fun, and you got paid for it, and you met people, and it's the greatest education in the world. And in my little Greenbrier station wagon, I felt very much like a troubadour.
Jeffrey Tambor
Education
You
People
World
Made
Met
Think
Station
Week
Like
Felt
Greatest
Bliss
Got
Doing
Wagon
Very
So Much Fun
Wanted
Theater
Little
Much
Paid
Fun
Ever
I get up and cook for my kids, who really like my scrambled eggs. Or we make pancakes and the requisite bacon. The kids either play or watch cartoons, and Daddy gets to read the 'New York Times' and do his puzzle.
Jeffrey Tambor
Kids
Bacon
Cartoons
Puzzle
New
Like
Make
Read
His
Up
Times
Get
York
Eggs
Scrambled
Gets
New York
New York Times
Either
Really
Cook
Requisite
Who
Daddy
Play
Watch
Pancakes
I don't like to hurry. I'm not a conductor of the fast, fiery romantic type. I prefer Bruckner, with the sincerity of his musical language and the huge time spans in which his ideas develop, to Mahler, with his hysteria and self-indulgence.
Jeffrey Tate
Time
Language
Type
Musical
Hurry
Mahler
Develop
Hysteria
Like
Sincerity
Ideas
His
Huge
Conductor
Romantic
Which
Spans
Prefer
Fiery
Fast
I grew up, like most people in my generation, watching John Travolta. I was thrilled to meet him.
Jeffrey Toobin
Generation
People
Meet
John
My Generation
John Travolta
Thrilled
Like
Most
Him
Up
Grew
Watching
I'm not sure whether Los Angeles borders on the ocean or on oblivion. I always feel that I'm two steps away from the other side when I'm out there. It's more like a vacation place or a place to visit than a place to hunker down.
Jeffrey Wright
Ocean
Down
Other
Side
Visit
Out
Borders
Angeles
More
Oblivion
Feel
Steps
Like
Sure
Always
Los
Los Angeles
Than
Whether
Place
Away
Vacation
Two
I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.
Jeffrey Wright
Generation
Hopefully
My Generation
Like
Most
Contemporary
Least
Effective
Theater
Chops
Actor
Well, I like to be kept on my toes. I look for a challenge. I don't like to recreate steps that I've already walked. I like to see if I can create something new.
Jeffrey Wright
Challenge
See
Something
Something New
Recreate
Steps
New
Like
Look
Well
Walked
Create
Toes
Kept
I used to say that 'happy' was like 'lucky,' kind of imaginary. But now that I'm married and have children, I find that happiness is a real space.
Jeffrey Wright
Happiness
Happy
Space
Say
Kind
Married
Find
Like
Real
Children
Used
Lucky
Now
Imaginary
What I've learned in my career as an actor is that you're only as good as your collaborators. The process is many things, but it is wholly collaborative, particularly with something like 'Westworld,' which is a 10-episode-per-season gig, and we're just now on the 7th episode.
Jeffrey Wright
Good
You
Collaborative
Collaborators
Gig
Something
Only
Like
Particularly
Learned
Just
Process
Which
Episode
Your
Many
Wholly
Now
Actor
Things
Career
I took a class in college... I think we were reading some short Chekhov plays, and I knew the first day of the class that I was going to be an actor. It was just the bizarrest thing, but it just felt like home.
Jeffrey Wright
Day
Home
Class
College
First
Reading
Think
Took
Some
Knew
Like
Felt
Chekhov
Were
Going
Short
Just
Actor
Thing
Plays
For me, an actor is a person who makes characters like a cobbler makes shoes.
Jeffrey Wright
Me
Shoes
Characters
Like
Makes
Person
Who
Actor
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