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 love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.
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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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On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself.
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I know I need to watch myself because I don't want anyone to think I'm snobby or stuck up. I have to be real careful. I don't want to hurt my Christian witness.
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Anything where people have to work together makes me cry.
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Well, I do expect a lot of myself. I'm a harsh critic because I know what I'm capable of. I have hit those occasional peaks amongst the valleys, but the peaks are so few-things like genuine flashes of virtuoso brush inking, like I've never executed before or since-I can count on one hand the number of jobs where I've been able to hit that mark. The same with penciling. Sometimes it just flows, but more often than not, it's pure physical and spiritual torment just to get something decent on paper. I often get very discouraged with the whole creative process.
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But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses.
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I see bits and pieces of me in all the characters in my films.
