David Dobkin Quotes
I'm very comfortable with an R-rating. I feel like it sounds like what people talk like in real life; I think it's more real to me.
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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Our relationship with Mexico in this regard is unique for us, and in many respects unique in the world.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.
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I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.
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In the United States, large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation's funeral at our expense.
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Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.
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I reverted easily to my wild state, that is experimentation.
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When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.
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My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were tales of segregated and racist America growing up in Alabama and Mississippi, where she came from.
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Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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Every day, we get a little bit closer to the kind of expertise and the kind of experience we're going to need to go there. I'd love to be the guy walking on Mars.
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I talk the truth. I don't trash talk, I just talk the truth.
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I'm very comfortable with an R-rating. I feel like it sounds like what people talk like in real life; I think it's more real to me.
