David Duchovny Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I've known Bezos for decades, since the very early days of Amazon, so it's no surprise to me that he's smart or willing to make big bets.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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I was born and raised in Manhattan; I didn't realize that I, in all my androgyny, was a freak to the rest of this country.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.
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Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury of being able to do a studio film and an independent afterwards was fantastic.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
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It really hit home that my parents felt as though they didn't have to worry anymore. They realized if you could win an Oscar, that was a good sign.
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One of the great joys in life is reading, yet it's the main thing people say they don't have time to do.
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The two most important people in animation are Winsor McCay and Walt Disney, and I'm not sure which should go first.
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I think it's my responsibility, as a person of influence... to sometimes try to do what I can.
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Mayors are judged by results.
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It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.
