Daniel Greenberg Quotes
You can't make someone learn something - you really can't teach someone something - they have to want to learn it. And if they want to learn, they will.
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During the presidential primaries of 1940, I received a request from the Democratic National Committee to sing God Bless America before the speeches.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.
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I was just finishing up 'Spotlight' in Toronto - I finished it on a Tuesday and started 'True Detective' on a Friday. So I was missing rehearsals, unfortunately, which I hate and why I never like to work back-to-back.
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The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.
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To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.
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And TV is not the easiest place to be dangerous or on the edge. Especially on a Saturday night.
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That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.
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I sometimes feel that racism is getting worse.
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To me, the Quran is a research book.
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The years I raced in were fantastic. There was so much change in the cars. We went from treaded tyres to no wings right through to slicks to enormous wings.
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Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.
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My dream is to go spend a week on some island with no phone.
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I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!
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I usually don't really have breakfast.
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If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film.
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I rooted for the Dodgers when they were in Brooklyn.
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When it comes to the battle of the molluscs, cephalopods win tentacles down.
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Whatever it is that you do, if you have that passion and desire for it, that's the most important thing.
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It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for 'Monsoon Wedding,' and most of my film, are women. We get the work done, you know, much lesser play of ego... And I really believe in harmony, I believe in working in a spirit of egolessness and that the film is bigger than all of us.
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With Halcyon's technology, the pool of genetic information will grow by orders of magnitude in the course of months, offering the first real chance at cures for cancer and other previously intractable diseases.
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God is playing a role in all religions and that Christians are more united than they sometimes think.
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The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
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You can't make someone learn something - you really can't teach someone something - they have to want to learn it. And if they want to learn, they will.
