David Benioff Quotes
With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face.
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In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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When I was going blind, I didn't turn to God. It didn't seem to me then - and it doesn't seem to me now - that those items were His concern. Early on, I figured I better begin to learn how to count on myself, instead of counting on supernatural forces.
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Richard Hoggart's cultural analysis 'The Uses of Literacy' was published in 1957, but its influence still hovers over anyone setting out to write seriously about people's affection for things that aren't serious, such as the products of pop culture.
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The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were.
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There should be no bank too big to fail and no individual too big to jail.
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At a DNC fundraiser in Florida, as quoted in 'Obama condemns violence at Trump rally' by Evelyn Rupert, The Hill (3 June 2016)
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With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.
