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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All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold.
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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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Despite the hundreds of non-governmental organizations and the continued outpouring of foreign aid, East Africa remains as a region overwhelmed by extreme poverty.
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If I eat, I can't work. I'll eat when I'm dead.
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All young people, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity, need someone who's got their back.
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Seaboard Air Line, which was thought by numerous innocents to provide a foothold in aviation, was another favorite, although, in fact, it was a railroad.
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I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.
