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 was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.
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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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I want to be clear: The United States of America has done what we said we would do. That’s not to say that our work is complete.
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The Gettysburg Adress has been included, of late, in several anthologies of poetry. It actually meets the major requirement of all poetry: It is a mellifluous and emotional statement of the obviously not true. The men who fought for self-determination at Gettysburg were not the Federals but the Confederates.
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I'm a small dog guy. I don't want to be pattin' with the big Rottweiler or Great Dane. I like those little guys that jump on your lap and don't knock you over when they do.
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Ideas move fast when their time comes.
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I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.
