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 told my parents that I will marry any girl they choose for me. They also told me that they are open to considering any girl I choose. We were very open about it throughout.
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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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I've lost a lot more races than I've ever won... it's all part of the journey, really.
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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'm quite fond of Switzerland. I love Switzerland.
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I wanted to know how Jackie felt about [John F. Kennedy], and I got to know Rachel "Bunny" Mellon. Bunny and her were buddies. I asked, "How do you know what Jackie knew?" And Bunny said, "She told me."... Jackie called him "Magic." Bunny said she just picked her man. That was it. This was the guy she loved.
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The stressful time is the blank page at the beginning. When you're starting to see things being made flesh, and you're able to respond to that flesh, that's really exciting.
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Peaceful New Yorkers, pls refute the Ground Zero mosque plan if you believe catastrophic pain caused @ Twin Towers site is too raw, too real.
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I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.
