Neil LaBute Quotes
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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.
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The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
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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.
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I've just never been a tracksuit-wearer.
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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.
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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.
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All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.
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What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
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I think Michael Moore is a hero.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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He would have left a Greek accent slanting the wrong way, and righted up a falling man.
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Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
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Ik laat het er op aankomen en doe niets anders dan leren en op een goed einde hopen.
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Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.
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I think people are intolerant of artists.
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I dunno. This game is getting funnier and funnier. We do everything but punch 'em in the nose and here we are all tied up in the Series. We flatten 'em by scores of 16-3, 10-0 and 12-0 and we still need one more to win. How do you figure that? Don't write this, but even if they beat us tomorrow, we're the better club.
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If you take a look at our natural history, there's always a moment where the young lion wants to challenge the older lion and, inherently, that's going to be problematic, and I don't think we're any different.
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The pursuit is everything, the doing of it, the expressing, not the outcome, but the creation of it.
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Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code - a code which would guarantee the success of a community or state. The difficulty is that these techniques are in the hands of the wrong people-or, rather, there aren't any right people.
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We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.
