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?
Quotes to Explore
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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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The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.
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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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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
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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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As a civilian not playing sport, to get that sense of real belonging and feeling how you are progressing through the day is what I loved and miss.
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Wow, how can you lose a ball game like that. I just don't understand sometimes the capabilities of this team to disappoint.
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If you put someone on screen long enough, they become the hero.
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For me, the massiveness of what I don’t know is one way I experience God. It creates in me a feeling of humility and a sense of gratitude.
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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?
