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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I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
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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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Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.
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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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To reject practice by saying, 'it is conceptual!' is the path of fools. A tendency of the inexperienced and something to be avoided.
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The screen is a magic medium.
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We live in a global village. No country can live in isolation of others like Robinson Crusoe.
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Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.
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We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.
