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 feel people think I'm almost like a robot - like an android... I just don't really get portrayed as someone who has feelings or who is sympathetic... like a self-absorbed ice queen.
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Some things are very low profile, but if they excite me creatively, I accept them. Sometimes there are high-profile projects, and you have to do it. We all have human limitations. It is a painful decision to turn things down. Even accepting 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a decision that I had to sacrifice another project.
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I left Fleetwood Mac to make myself happy, and fortunately, it worked.
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Liberal elites and Democratic Party elders want all Hispanics to fall into a monolithic liberal agenda.
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We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.
