David Cronenberg Quotes
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When you're a caregiver, you need to realize that you've got to take care of yourself, because, not only are you going to have to rise to the occasion and help someone else, but you have to model for the next generation.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
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What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'
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I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.
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People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
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What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.
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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.
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You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
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I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.
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Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.
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Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
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Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.
