Neil LaBute Quotes
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I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around the songs. They've got this thing called 'Floetry' where they all have to put in artwork. They've set up their own competitions and stuff which is kind of amazing.
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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
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I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things.
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Accidents at power plants are bad enough. But a leak from a bioreactor could be worse, since bacteria can learn new tricks when you're not looking.
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I know that's blasphemous when you are from Detroit, but I was never a fan of Motown stuff. I don't care for the production much.
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I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.
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By 15, I was lucky enough to find the theater.
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I learned how to sing in front of a lot of people and to hone my skills alongside some of the greatest performers of all time.
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I'm not really a knob-twiddler. I always work with an engineer; I'm not super hands-on when it comes to mixing boards and computers. I'm much more about what I'm hearing and what it needs to be like. I deal with songs and ideas and instruments.
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Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented.
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I was born on a plantation, and things weren't so good. We didn't have any money. I never thought of the word 'poor' 'til I got to be a man, but when you live in a house that you can always peek out of and see what kind of day it is, you're not doing so well. And your rest room is not inside the house.
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She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.
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I looooove Miss Piggy.
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The moment somebody says 'this is very risky' is the moment it becomes attractive to me.
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I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.
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I'm the queen of the independent video!
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Some memories are made out of the paper, they burn like a high school cigarette. Some leave without a “see you later”. Turn the page and pretty soon you forget. And others are made of concrete, others are made of steel. No, you can’t get away from the way they made you feel.
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I build myself up with confidence with aggression, and confidence to control the game. If you're the bowler and you've got the ball in your hand you're controlling the game, so you've got to make sure the batsmen knows who's boss.
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You don't believe it because you don't understand," he said hoarsely. "Prosper was different. He wasn't like other people. He might have hated me, but he loved me too. In his own way. He couldn't help it; not after raising me for all those years." When no one responded – when he saw nothing but expressions of disbelief on the faces around him – Cadel wailed, "He did! He did! I know he did! He only wanted to wreck my life because he wasn't a part of it!" And as sympathetic hands reached out towards him from every corner of the car, Cadel began to cry like someone whose heart was breaking.
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People know not to mess with my friends or my family because it's not going to work out well for you.
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I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.
