Neil LaBute Quotes
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Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
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People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.
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Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.
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The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I love books.
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In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally.
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People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.
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Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.
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Right now I'm on my God flow, you know what I mean? I got Job 1:21 tattooed on my chest.
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It is past time that consumers recognize the emerging power of 'Made In America' products and services. The nation's shopping list needs this header: Check out what is made here before you 'go' overseas.
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I live with the fact that while I am playing, I am going to give everything I have, and I will live with those consequences.
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Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.
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Anyone is welcome to hang out with me and have fun or sit down with me and talk. I don't discriminate against anyone. And I don't condone hating someone or treating them badly because they live differently than I do.
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Why did the chicken cross the road? To prove to the possum that it could be done.
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Conversation opens our views, and gives our faculties a more vigorous play; it puts us upon turning our notions on every side, and holds them up to a light that discovers those latent flaws which would probably have lain concealed in the gloom of unagitated abstraction.
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It was just expected that I would go to college. Both my parents are teachers and they tolerated acting, but I was going to go to a school of quality or bust. Which made my downshifting back to acting afterward a little difficult.
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An author needs to be in the market. He or she needs to come out with a new book every year. That keeps you alive in the public mind and gives a push to your older books.
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With a series, you build the character as you go. When you've got a shorter project or a film, you know the overall arc from the beginning.
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Management that is destructively critical when mistakes are made kills initiative. And it's essential that we have many people with initiative if we are to continue to grow.
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I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis.
