Dan Schulman Quotes
It's been with us for a millennium, and we'll still be carrying around cash for a long time to come. There'll just be less of it.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Never say 'no' to pie. No matter what, wherever you are, diet-wise or whatever, you know what? You can always have a small piece of pie, and I like pie. I don't know anybody who doesn't like pie. If somebody doesn't like pie, I don't trust them. I'll bet you Vladimir Putin doesn't like pie.
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I don't direct so that I can have an identity and so I can go on to CGI movies. I had a big identity as an actor, and that's not what I'm looking for from directing. Directing is a whole different goal.
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It merely confirmed in him his long-held belief that you should never believe anything anyone said without first checking it. Suspect everybody, had been for many years, if not his whole life, one of his first axioms.
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A state of shock is what results when a gap opens up between events and our initial ability to explain them. When we find ourselves in that position, without a story, without our moorings, a great many people become vulnerable to authority figures telling us to fear one another and relinquish our rights for the greater good.
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The Prohibition era is so vividly depicted in 'Lawless.' John Hillcoat does a remarkable job of rooting his film in such a tangible reality.
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It's been with us for a millennium, and we'll still be carrying around cash for a long time to come. There'll just be less of it.
