Daniel Schwartz Quotes
The world's a small place, life's short, and so you should only be nice to people. I don't raise my voice at work. I don't have tantrums.
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.
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I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
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Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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Do I think Vince McMahon was looking at my matches in Japan going, 'We need him?' No. He wasn't. He's too busy. There's no way. But somebody may have been looking and going, 'All right, I like this guy. Let's give him a shot.'
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Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.
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Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being.
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Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.
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Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.
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A writer is seldom satisfied with the condition he finds himself in. We're all given to fretting a lot.
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The world's a small place, life's short, and so you should only be nice to people. I don't raise my voice at work. I don't have tantrums.
