Dave Morris Quotes
'Breaking Bad' and 'The Shield' were planned right from the start so that their narrative trajectory would come down in a blaze of fireworks.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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I loved the world of imagination.
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In reality, throughout your career, you have to make yourself interesting enough for people to be waiting to see your films. In my case, people are longing to see what I come out with next. That's my success.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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I read a lot of poetry, and I love what it does with language. I love music, too, and I think there's probably no coincidence there, that the rhythm of the words is almost as important as the words themselves, and when you can get the two working together, which usually takes me about 20 goes, I feel a huge satisfaction.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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I just kind of assumed that you do a movie and then you leave and you hop onto the next thing. I never thought that people are actually buddies.
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As cliched as it sounds, music is my only form of expression. So I have to be honest with myself, and with that comes being vulnerable.
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When I started as a young chef, I was Italian, and I was a woman, and everyone else in New York was French and a man.
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It makes me feel great, knowing my songs are being heard and of service to people.
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And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.
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I knew Kathy Joosten; we worked together on a very short-lived series called 'Thanks' for CBS.
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'Breaking Bad' and 'The Shield' were planned right from the start so that their narrative trajectory would come down in a blaze of fireworks.
