David Dobkin Quotes
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I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.
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I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov -
The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who do not drink, disproportionately affects the poor who resort to illegally brewed alcohol when they want a drink, not infrequently leading to their death, and are more likely to be harassed by the police.
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As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.
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Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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Most people who end up being successful have good grades, but it's orthogonal - there's no extra information than if they put together a website and have bunch of fans who love coming and seeing what they're doing.
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I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.
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I think that if you're improvising on TV, it's a great way to help the dialogue between actors and writers.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
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Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.
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If you exile a writer, however free the country he is sent to, there will always be a sense of internal constraint.
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I keep going to New York every year for 20 to 25 days. I love it there, but I can't imagine settling in any place other than India.
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I'm not clever enough or aware enough to make a political movie.
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I can make a movie about Lee Harvey Oswald and make you feel what he feels and make you understand why he believes what he believes. That doesn't mean I think you should go out and shoot JFK.
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I honestly never thought in my career I was going to do a body-switching movie.
