David Droga Quotes

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David Droga

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• I grew up on Avenue C, and Tompkins Square Park was my park. That was where I played ball every day. I lived in that park.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Up
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I was in New York. I had been doing theater for many years, and then I got hired to a little part - they weren't calling it an extra, but I didn't have lines. It was a 'featured' part.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Years
  • Doing
  • New York

• I was an easygoing guy, and school was pretty much people trying to challenge me to a fight, y'know, saying, 'Rambo! Rocky!'

  

  Sage Stallone
  • People
  • Trying
  • School

• I am pleased to tell you that he is finally getting some rest and is regaining his appetite as well.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Rest
  • Appetite
  • Regaining

• The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Business
  • Level
  • Reached

• Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Think
  • Faith
  • Religious

• One of the joys of being at St. George is you were operating under the radar screen a lot of the time, and you could actually get on with things a lot more quickly and easily.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Time
  • You
  • More

• For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • People
  • Work
  • Mystery

• Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.

  

  Carl Icahn
  • Me
  • Like
  • Quarter

• If I have my way, I want to go start making really interactive television. Stuff where you can sit and watch real actors do a real series and they can get into some kind of gun battle and all of a sudden your television prompts you to pick up your controller and all of a sudden, you're playing a first-person shooter.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Up
  • Real
  • Want

• I wanted this to have as wide an audience as possible. I didn't want to get an X rating, because in my opinion once that happens you X-out everyone else.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Want
  • Opinion
  • Audience

• I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all these profiteers descend on Baton Rouge to lobby to get rid of the housing projects and privatise the school system - I thought I was in some science-fiction experiment.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • School
  • Science
  • Powerful

• The characters in my stories all have quite loud lives in my head. It's a relief to get them on the page. Often they come from people I've noticed or overheard - but that is only a part of them. It's only by writing that I discover who these people really are.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Writing
  • Page

• As I get older, all sorts of things become less funny. Once one has children, any cruelty involving children becomes far less amusing than when one was at the mercy of one's friends' and relatives' children.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Funny

• To be understood is to prostitute yourself.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• The international monetary system is the glue that binds national economies together.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Together

• Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • People
  • Women
  • Sex

• There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • People

• Since the whole city has one end, it is manifest that education should be one and the same for all, and that it should be public, and not private - not as at present, when every one looks after his own children separately, and gives them separate instruction of the sort which he thinks best; the training in things which are of common interest should be the same for all. Neither must we suppose that any one of the citizens belongs to himself, for they all belong to the state, and are each of them a part of the state, and the care of each part is inseparable from the care of the whole.

  

  Aristotle
  • Education
  • Care
  • Interest

• Parade magazine announces that 40 million Soviet men were killed between 1914 and 1945. The magazine’s headline reads ‘Short End of the Stick’. Because men died? No. The women were seen as getting the short end of the stick because they were stuck with factory and street-cleaner positions the men weren’t around to do.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women

• I used to get a lift to school every day with a man who was a major in the British Army.

  

  Adrian McKinty
  • School
  • Army

• When streams of unkindness, as bitter as gall, Bubble up from the heart to the tongue, And Meekness is writhing in torment and thrall, By the hands of Ingratitude wrung, -In the heat of injustice, unwept and unfair, While the anguish is festering yet, None, none but an angel or God can declare 'I now can forgive and forget.'

  

  Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • Up
  • God
  • Heart

• The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Future
  • You
  • Go

• We're moved by emotions and characters and stories. We love that.

  

  David Droga