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?
Dave Itzkoff
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.
T. C. Boyle
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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.
Og Mandino
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
J. Michael Straczynski
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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.
Dan Brown
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
Wayne Rogers
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
Hamza Yusuf
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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.
Rafael dos Anjos
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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.
Maggie Grace
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Many of depression's symptoms - exhaustion, insomnia, nausea, headaches, weight loss, weight gain - are physical ailments.
Gayle Forman
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I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.
Natasha Leggero
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The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.
Owen Chamberlain
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As if our birth had at first sundered things, and we had been thrust up through into nature like a wedge, and not till the wound heals and the scar disappears, do we begin to discover where we are, and that nature is one and continuous everywhere.
Henry David Thoreau
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Every actor I ever meet goes, 'Ultimately I plan on having my own company and write and direct,' but yes, I too would love to write and direct a movie. I want to do a play, too. I want to do it all.
Jason Schwartzman
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I gradually understood why European mothers aren't in perpetual panic about their work-life balance and don't write books about how executive moms should just try harder: Their governments are helping them - and doing it competently.
Pamela Druckerman
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We must develop a federal program of public works, retraining, and jobs for all - so that none, white or black, will have cause to feel threatened
. . . There is nothing except shortsightedness to prevent us from guaranteeing an annual minimum and livable income for every American family.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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?
Dave Itzkoff
