Daniel Schwartz Quotes
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When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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One thing I detest most about the financial press is the lack of accountability. All sorts of nonsense is said without penalty.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.
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'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.
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If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.
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I'm only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch.
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I finally bought a gun because I said if I'm going to get it, I'm taking somebody with me.
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The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.
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The thing about Memphis is that it's pleasingly off-kilter. It's a great big whack job of a city. The anti-Atlanta. You go there, and you can't believe the things people will say, the way they think, the wobbling orbits of their lives. There's an essential otherness.
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David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.
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I think that people who do enjoy my stand-up comedy and the people who get it and the people who are taken in by it, they see that I'm a guy that has love of the game.
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I need a vacation anyway. They fight me too much. I'm not going to be the one to back out of these fights.
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I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.
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The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it.
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How come "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?
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You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.
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I wanted to make these people real, not like they were in a painting. Like these are people who don't know they're in a period movie. Those concerns are incredibly immediate.
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I knew I wanted to be an actress, but I hadn't ever really told anyone. I'd always got quite good grades, so people assumed I would go and do a 'normal' job. My dad took me to my first audition for drama school and picked me up without anyone knowing, really.
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I like people who genuinely are looking for a project and not a job.
