Dave Attell Quotes
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I'm cranky.
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I never really learned photography.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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I didn't see Dr. No for a year, but I liked it when I saw it. It was a fun movie. I don't like the Bond movies now. I hate special effects.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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The hardest thing to do and most miserable films are comedies.
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To the solace of his name, simply saying 'Muhammad' has an incredibly soothing effect on me.
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While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself.
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It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.
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Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.
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Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.
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It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
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I'm not somebody who's emotionally attached to an outcome of a character that I'm hired to play. The fans are.
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The way to compose for me is to have lots of time.
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It's very easy to run a good 200 m. after an appalling shot put.
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There's no wrong way to experience a film.
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It's hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to.
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Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel.
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It bothers me when musicians listen to music from the '60s and try and recreate it. Those people weren't trying to recreate music from the '20s. Why do it?
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Most of the famous love affairs of literature or film were quite short. What was 'Romeo & Juliet'? How long were they together? A few days.
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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There's something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women are allowed to be soft and feminine and have a sense of humor. But what I love about Southern women in particular is their universality.
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For me, I never really understood why certain lines had to be crossed in order to get a point across. There's a PG way to say everything, in my opinion.
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I never wanted to be famous.
