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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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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Fifth Harmony is an entity or identity outside all of us, and I don't think anybody felt individually represented by the sound - we didn't make it.
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Reason gains all people by compelling none.
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I'm obsessed with trash TV. I love horrible TV. shows. It's the white trash in me, you know?
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Most of us complain about Congress. We say it's a place that doesn't reflect us; they don't listen to us. Actually, Congress well reflects the American people. It gives us exactly what we ask for.
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That it doesn’t matter how people treat you, how they label you, as long as you don’t label you.
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I prefer theater, but I love to do films, and I prefer theater primarily because I've done more. I know less about movies. You can't lie in either medium. The wonderful thing is that the camera, just like an audience, is made out of skin - because celluloid is skin.
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I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis.
