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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Every company can use someone advocating loudly for the customer.
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... with men it's rush, rush, rush, every minute. I'm glad I'm a sedentary spider." "What does sedentary mean?" asked Wilbur. "Means I sit still a good part of the time and don't go wandering all over creation. I know a good thing when I see it, and my web is a good thing. I stay put and wait for what comes. Gives me a chance to think.
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Fashion comes and goes but style lasts forever.
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A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.
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A shady friend for torrid days Is easier to find Than one of higher temperature For frigid hour of mind.
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I see bits and pieces of me in all the characters in my films.
