Dave Itzkoff Quotes
Where would heist movies be without the Big Score - that payoff so irresistible it can lure the most jaded desperado out of hiding?
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I like to live in my own mind, regardless of everyone and everything, working out the intimate puzzles that are my stories and novels.
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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
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A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.
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I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.
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Most geniuses are weird.
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I'm one of the ones who believed the Iraq War was a complete mistake from the very beginning.
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I've stated that it's possible the only reason I'm in show business is that I have such a strange, particular head of hair. That, and I can grow a red beard.
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The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.
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I've been racketeered on.
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The independents who were our fiercest competitors all succumbed to the one-hit-makes-you-a-genius philosophy. It is a mistake to think you have the magic touch. Show business is roulette. If you start to play for stakes you can't afford, there's no way you can survive.
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I think the forms of terrorism are becoming very diverse, amongst them cyber-terrorism, for example.
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I'm about caring, I'm about people, and I'm about entertaining people. I'm a family man. A husband. A father. I've been a lot of other things over the years, which we don't really want to talk about.
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I have a figure, and there aren't many girls out there right now who have that.
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I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.
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I think that ultimately any effective drama or tragedy tries to put you as much as it can into the protagonist's shoes.
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When I first came into New York City, what I did was, I didn't have very much money, and I couldn't afford pictures or a resume, so what I used to do is I would tear off the back of a matchbook, and I'd write my name and telephone number on the back of the matchbook.
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Where would heist movies be without the Big Score - that payoff so irresistible it can lure the most jaded desperado out of hiding?
