Neil LaBute Quotes
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I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.
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I have to do something with my mind, or I'll get in trouble.
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After retiring from competition in 1981, I did exhibitions and coached.
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Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.
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Acting is a specific discipline. Just because you can sing doesn't mean you have the sensitivities of being an actor.
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The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping.
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I love satire. Evelyn Waugh is one of my favorite writers of all time. He's hilarious. He's so wicked. He's so great. On the other hand, pure satire is an imitation. It doesn't really have any heart. It only holds things up to ridicule.
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[Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil].
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It all comes down to this: if your subconscious "financial blueprint" is not "set" for success, nothing you learn, nothing you know, and nothing you do will make much of a difference.
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Western audiences can gain an impression of China from my films. This is an excellent channel for promoting China`s culture.
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Everybody's got whatever problems they have. I refuse to let somebody's mistaken beliefs affect my life.
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You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action.
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I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
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A weak people and its equally debilitated leaders are bludgeoned by history. It maims them into the cripples that they are meant to be.
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For me, the biggest thing is someone who's kind. I'm not into the bad-boy thing.
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Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
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Something that comes to us, some gym shoe that comes to us as a result of child labor from a brutal dictatorship, where people do not have basic freedoms, it wouldn't bug me to tax the living Dickens out of that thing or even to forbid its importation whatsoever. But that's a moral question, not an economic question.
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Movies are - all I've found is that they're just tougher and tougher to make.
