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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The school I went to was a little farm school in Wannaska, student body 61 or something. There was a kid, the only black kid in our county, Dustin Byfuglien. He won the Stanley Cup a couple years back with the Blackhawks. Out of a class of 21 kids, he and I always had to be on opposite teams on everything because we were the most athletic.
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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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Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults. After growing up on a dairy farm, everything in life seemed easy
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I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction.
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I've found that having role models and mentors who I resonate with is so important - a lot of people have so many questions and may not know where to go to get answers or may not have someone who can relate enough to even answer in the first place.
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Movies are - all I've found is that they're just tougher and tougher to make.
