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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Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take hold and say: 'This is part of who I am, but not only who I am.'
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This body, the United States Congress, was united, Republicans and Democrats alike, in taking that action, toppling the Taliban government, and working to try and root out al Qaeda and find Osama bin Laden.
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I'm not okay when I have to be around everyone all the time.
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
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And that's what I liked about it, because they are, in the beginning, your little beautiful stock figures, who then make a decision to preserve their futures, but the decision they make isn't completely right, and it destroys their futures.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
