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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To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
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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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Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.
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I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.
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I don't trust that many people. Just my mother and my wife and a couple of friends. When I trust people, it doesn't end well.
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Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it.
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I'm a point of conversation for my friends.
