David Chase Quotes
When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths.
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Surprise is key in all art.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.
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I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.
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Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.
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I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.
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I find the business world hard.
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I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.
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When it's a bad movie you want to release it quietly. You try to keep it a secret like an STD.
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To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
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Isn't that the great thing about Christmas? You get a lot of respite, time to recharge your batteries, time with family without too much else happening anywhere else in the world, time to focus on the people you love and the activities that you enjoy, time to exercise, to read.
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This world's a bubble.
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I almost feel like we do live in a world like 'Caprica.' The fact that it's so close to home is why it appeals to me so much. You're making statements about what's going on right now. You take Facebook and Wii and add it together, and that's what the virtual world in 'Caprica' is.
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There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'
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It's going to sound ridiculous, but knowing how to pose, how to maintain a level of engagement and variation for a day of shooting, is actually a skill.
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I was so lucky to walk away with two Super Bowls and know that the last year was positive.
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We must accustom ourselves to the follies of others and not be astonished at the foolishness that takes place in our presence.
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I wouldn't say I'm girl-crazy, because that makes me sound like a bit of a womanizer. That isn't really me. But I am quite flirty - maybe too flirty. I'm an 18-year-old boy, and I like to have fun!
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Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.
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When we were doing 'The Sopranos', I used to love that about it. There were rules, Mafia codes you had to go by, but the code is ridiculous. It's a code among sociopaths.
