Neil LaBute Quotes
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
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As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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In literature, older women are not often given center stage.
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We always learn more from the losing than the winning.
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It's really important that folks be able to speak out.
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A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
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They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it's bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money.
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I'm actually recording my second album now.... so I've just been recording and co-writing. The single should be coming out soon, but I feel it's pretty much 80 percent done. And, yeah, I'm excited about it. It's a lot more rock and edgier..
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Change is one thing, progress is another.
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I've held a brain in my hands, which is an extraordinary experience.
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Jeb Bush, I appreciate you. You a leader. You a Bush.
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I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.
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Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
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I don't mind Ed Sheeran, but I wouldn't want to be compared to a guy that builds his song around a guitar, since we do not have a guitar in our band.
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All of our ancestors came from somewhere.
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There may be a long list of things to do, but really, there is just one thing on the list at any time. If you think of it like that, the whole world looks different and you can stay quite calm. Maybe everything will get done eventually and maybe not. You can always have hope.
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Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
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I try not to become friends with musicians, but life happens and dinner happens and going out happens - it becomes interwoven in L.A.
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I've spent a long time giving people the benefit of the doubt, and I'm tired of it.
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The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.
