David Bergen Quotes
Invite characters of surprising and moral character, or at least those who grapple with what is right or those who make decisions that shock.
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Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed the envelope for the time.
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!
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As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.
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There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I remember starting out and covering songs.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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The same way you can see me sit at a table in a movie and be six different people, the mother and the uncle and all these different things, when I'm in the studio, I can do that, too. I'm not trying to be a recording artist and have a certain type of music for the radio.
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The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps.
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Without fathers you would have no civilization.
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Christians have no greater ally than Israel.
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When you died I didn't weep nor dream but knew you like a god breathe in each healing we begin.
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You don't want to have a character say what's bothering him; you want to define characters by action.
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Corbyn's words imply a serious lack of moral judgement. Just as all Muslims are not to blame for ISIS, not all Brits are to blame for [Jeremy] Corbyn.
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Invite characters of surprising and moral character, or at least those who grapple with what is right or those who make decisions that shock.
