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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Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.
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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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I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
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Technically, on the spectrum of very bad things, they did nothing truly wicked. But of course, that spectrum has no measure for the greatest of all carnal sins, the kind that occurs before skin touches skin, before wondering turns to yearning, yearning to having, having to holding for dear life, when two people cling to each other so desperately that even when they lie, inches apart, neither is fully satisfied until the light between them turns to darkness.
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I'm kind of stupid when it comes to gadgets.
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I'm very scared of water. When you don't see the water... I imagine monsters - stupid things.
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It is really, really wonderful that in your old age you are protected by specialists who understand your problems and sort them out for you. Well, isn't that what we all need?
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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.
