Daniel Portman Quotes
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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I phoned Joe Roth, who was head of the studio at the time, and told him how beautiful the film was, and that I was fully ready to support it, that Michael's work was wonderful and I imagined that Daniel would feel the same. He listened quietly and read between the lines.
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In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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I was really inspired by these larger-than-life female artists like Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse and Yvonne Rainier and the incredible Lynda Benglis. There were many women who were really driven and became successful, who were part of essential paradigm shifts, despite the fact that the art world was still dominated by men.
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My social circle, my best friends, are all people that I met at UCB.
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I research every part thoroughly. I talk it out with my actor friends, but then I throw it all away when I get to the set. You have to be spontaneous.
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You can't eat your friends and have them too.
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It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.
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Even present-day fuels possess more than enough energy, if only we knew how to release and use it. Just as molecular energy is so freely used to-day, so atomic energy may bring interplantary travel within easy reach to-morrow.
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I'm a point of conversation for my friends.
