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.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Own

• 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
  • Art
  • Energy
  • End

• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • American
  • House
  • Looks

• 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
  • Book
  • Funny
  • Simple

• Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Listening
  • Acting
  • Behavior

• Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Trouble
  • Individual
  • Last

• Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Innocent
  • September
  • Islam

• 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
  • God
  • Money
  • Like

• 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
  • Why
  • Beautiful
  • Practice

• I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Love
  • Hard
  • For Him

• The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.

  

  Owen Chamberlain
  • Science
  • Past
  • Research

• Most geniuses are weird.

  

  T-Pain
  • Weird
  • Most
  • Geniuses

• I'm one of the ones who believed the Iraq War was a complete mistake from the very beginning.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • War
  • Beginning
  • Mistake

• 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.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Business
  • Hair
  • Red

• 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.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Faith

• I've been racketeered on.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Been

• 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.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Business
  • Mistake
  • Magic

• I think the forms of terrorism are becoming very diverse, amongst them cyber-terrorism, for example.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Think
  • Example
  • Terrorism

• 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.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • People
  • Family
  • Father

• As I've grown older, I've grown more convinced there's nothing that shouldn't be talked about. If we think we're protecting each other, we're not.

  

  Jonathan Safran Foer

• I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.

  

  Valerie June
  • Song
  • Me
  • Down

• The equipment you've got really dictates what you're going to do. When I started touring, there were no monitors, so I had to take the sound from the hall, and of course it was on a delay, so I would sing, and then I would hear it back, but later. It was very weird.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • Weird

• It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Up
  • Women
  • College

• 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