Neil LaBute Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
First, I would find an object which I would think is suitable for my characters and stories, then write about it, and in the end, I ended up with a house full of thousands of objects.
-
The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
Garry Kasparov -
I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power. I can spend hours researching any such amazing lady, from Ching Shih to Hatshepsut to Boudica to Zenobia.
-
I've just never been a tracksuit-wearer.
-
I have a little dictaphone and if a sound takes my fancy or if a lyric comes to me in the middle of the night I'll just record it there and then.
-
I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
-
All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.
-
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
-
I think Michael Moore is a hero.
-
It is always observable that silence propagates itself, and that the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find any thing to say.
-
All policies should be packaged with full awareness of the limitation of human nature (amorality, emotionality and egoism) in both the short- and the long-term.
-
Amos Regev, the editor-in-chief of Israel HaYom, is a personal friend and my conversations with him are not within the framework of my job.
-
He would have left a Greek accent slanting the wrong way, and righted up a falling man.
-
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
-
Ik laat het er op aankomen en doe niets anders dan leren en op een goed einde hopen.
-
Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.
-
I think people are intolerant of artists.
-
I listen to Morricone, the famed Italian film composer, while I'm working.
-
You look at something like health care, the Affordable Care Act. And for all the controversy, we now have 20 million people who have health insurance who didn't have it. It's actually proven to be more effective, cheaper than even advocates like me expected.
-
Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he had the whip, and Bruce Lee was such an artist that you couldn't take your eyes off of him.
-
Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
-
A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.
-
We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.
