Neil LaBute Quotes

We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.

Neil LaBute

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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.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Up
  • Think
  • House

• 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.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Nature

• The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Life
  • Real
  • Political

• 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.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Women
  • Power
  • History

• 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.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Happy
  • Suffering
  • Anxiety

• I've just never been a tracksuit-wearer.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Never
  • Just
  • Been

• 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.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Night
  • Sound
  • Record

• Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • People
  • Me
  • Attention

• 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.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • Period
  • Creativity

• All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.

  

  Mahavira
  • Nature
  • Equal
  • Alike

• What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Mediocrity

• We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Time
  • Past
  • Present

• I think Michael Moore is a hero.

  

  Larry David
  • Think
  • Hero
  • Michael

• 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.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Silence

• When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Doubt

• 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.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Long
  • Nature

• 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.

  

  Benjamin Netanyahu
  • Job
  • Friend

• He would have left a Greek accent slanting the wrong way, and righted up a falling man.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Up
  • Greek

• In hip-hop, I wasn't very focused on delivering a message. It was just a string of lines that didn't connect. What I wanted to do is write stories... and affect someone's emotions with that song. I think as a soul singer, I'm able to accomplish that.

  

  Aloe Blacc
  • Soul
  • Song
  • Stories

• By keeping her heart protected, she'll never ever feel rejected.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Heart
  • She
  • Feel

• I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't.

  

  Alex Winter
  • Happy

• We were born with natural rights. We don't need civil rights. [African-Americans] don't need civil rights. They don't need them. They have inalienable rights granted by God in the Constitution. I mean, I'm discriminated against all the time. I don't care. It doesn't bother me. [I'm discriminated against] because I'm old. I'm too old to get a job as a game show host. They say, well, the guy's 71 and in five years he'll be 76. And I'm a one per center, and I'm absolutely discriminated against as a one per center.

  

  Chuck Woolery
  • Job
  • Rights
  • Discriminated

• We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.

  

  Neil LaBute