Dan Futterman Quotes
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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I love my work but do not know how I write it.
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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People say, 'Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?' It's everybody. It's the entire education establishment that is in power.
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I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the south of New Zealand called Invercargill and there was constant rain. There was a depressing sensation in the air.
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The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?
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I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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It's very important to give back to the community and do anything you can.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
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A good old rodeo never hurt anyone.
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Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.
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Academic culture is not merely indifferent to teaching, it is actively hostile to it.
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Rich folks always talk hard times.
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
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Most people know me at Pixar as the guy that doesn't like to do sequels or very reluctant to do sequels.
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Every night when I go out on stage, there's always one nagging fear in the back of my mind. I'm always afraid that somewhere out there, there is one person in the audience that I'm not going to offend!
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
