David Duchovny Quotes
Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.
Quotes to Explore
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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
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I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas.
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People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.
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I look for my opportunities, not trying to go outside of my genuine realm, because leadership has to be genuine and authentic.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.
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I look for absurdly simple plots so that I can simply focus on the characters. Having an understanding of what dialogue's easy to say and hard to say - I think that that's helpful, too.
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'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.
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What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.
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'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other characters - but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytelling, in my book.
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There are times when the writers ask us to improvise. Sometimes the animators are inspired by what you do, and sometimes you are inspired by what the animators do.
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I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
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I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes.
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You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.
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We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.
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This is the UFC. UFC has the best fighters in the world. That's it.
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If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
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Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.
