Neil LaBute Quotes
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People take things so seriously.
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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My first film 'Saawariya' was a flop; I don't regret it.
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We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.
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My experience has offered me the sensibility that encourages me to try newer characters.
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I have developed my most meaningful relationships online. None of them live within driving distance. None of them are about my own age.
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Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
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SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.
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I don't want to be a didactic voice. I like to ask more questions than I answer, just to get people thinking and to make it safe to access art.
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When you go away, you see where you come from in a different light. I see Scotland, and the rest of Britain, as much more exotic than I used to.
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Music was as natural as breathing in our house.
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Careless their merits or their faults to scan,His pity gave ere charity began.Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride,And e'en his failings leaned to Virtue's side.
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I cannot think of a system of law that dehumanizes & degrades women more than Islamic Law.
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Writers don't write about people they know. They write what they know about people.
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I have worked for a lot of really great leaders and mentors that I felt provided me, along with many of my peers - many of them women - opportunities.
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John Kerry wants to be the hero in his own drama. He likes King Arthur and the Round Table. He likes the young swashbuckling Churchill, and he loved the early antics of Theodore Roosevelt.
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Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.
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A potential person is not a person, any more than an acorn is an oak tree. I don't think women should have to give birth just because a sperm met an egg.
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The kitchen is the heart of our home.
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You don't want to be the first person to tell your 5-year-old, like, 'You're going to have a life filled with disappointments and letdowns - enjoy!'
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I see bits and pieces of me in all the characters in my films.
