Daniel Libeskind Quotes
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I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time lines for each major character and a time line for the entire novel: What is going on in the world as my characters struggle with their problems?
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.
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I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.
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Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
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I always gravitate towards the independent side of things, just because those are the stories I always fall in love with, but you don't really get paid, and living in Los Angeles is expensive, and I have a mortgage to pay. So it's good to jump onto a studio film and then in all my other time do small passion projects.
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I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.
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Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.
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I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'
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I'm still angry with Simpson for getting by with two murders.
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I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.
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I'm not somebody who is going to build something for a few years, sell it, and then go off and just have fun.
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Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.
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With the derivatives market larger than ever, we need way more regulation of Wall Street, not less.
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The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her spoiled, greedy daughter (Ann Blythe).
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For capitalism, war and peace are business and nothing but business.
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Hey, once a Bond girl, always a Bond girl. It will always be a big deal - it's an exclusive club.
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I've only been to jail once, and I didn't get my tattoos there.
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It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say. I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next.
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Conceit and arrogance are acquired states of mind. Conquer acquired states of mind, and basic sanity can unfold. Passion and willfulness are part of false consciousness; erase false consciousness, and true consciousness will appear.
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very good friends who happen to be in so-called Society; but Society as such is a bore and holds no fascination for me.
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It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.