David Brock Quotes
It's very important to understand that the 'Talk' piece was not an excerpt, it was an adaptation, which means I compressed different parts of the book and made a new piece.
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
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Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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Why do elites hate the poor? It's xenophobia. They don't know any poor people - except their off-the-books Brazilian nanny and illegal immigrant cleaning lady from Upper Revolta who don't speak English.
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.
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Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.
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I thought I'd be doing weird, Off Broadway theater after I graduated.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
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I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive.
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I not only work online through my various projects, but I am an avid user of online technologies to connect and engage with friends as well.
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Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.
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Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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I try to do a lot of research beforehand so I know where I want to go with a scene. I try not to get too stressed about it, because I find that's the worst thing.
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It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it.
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A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, 'Just call my name to see where I am,' because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.
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I always had an acting crush on Philip Seymour Hoffman. He just wowed me all the time. He was just quietly so impressive and so private.
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I've never been a fan of sociopaths who have no conscience. That scares me because they're capable of anything.
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It's very important to understand that the 'Talk' piece was not an excerpt, it was an adaptation, which means I compressed different parts of the book and made a new piece.
