David Duchovny Quotes
I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.
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The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.
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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.
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The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.
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I know it sounds weird, but the food that I eat, it doesn't make a big difference, and it never has. So, I've saved a ton of money not buying a lot of alcohol, not going out to restaurants too much. So, I think it's part of our culture, and it's part of a social activity more than anything else.
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By necessity, budgets require hard choices.
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I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.
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I need to mature a bit - then I might have something to show for it.
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I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.
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Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
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Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
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At the end of the day, I got to live my life for my family, for my children, and I'm going to do what's best for them.
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There's something in me that loves to inspire people: when I'm playing music, I imagine all this sparkly stardust going through everyone. I want to make people come alive.
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You know you're a hopeless record nerd when your time travel fantasies always come around to how cool it would be to go back to 1973 and buy all the great funk and jazz and salsa records that came out that year on tiny obscure labels and are now really rare and expensive.
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What I say is from my heart. You must be sincere. So when I sing a song, people are supposed to feel it.
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I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that.
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They say it only takes an instant to have a dream; a dream can be compressed into hardtack.
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'Let them scoff as they see fit! I will never compromise what I consider my art, especially for the sake of gain!''For the sake of gain I’d compromise the art of my grandmother,' muttered Zamp under his breath.
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Break not the will of the young, but guide it to right ends.
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What makes the Lincoln Memorial so powerful is that it doesn't try to do too much. In effect, it says that he saved the Union.
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Our baby is safe, and it's just a house.
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When we started the Allman Brothers Band, there was this great new technology that allowed us to get exposure: FM radio.
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I was about 26 or 27 and it was imperative that I make a living right away and it's hard to make a living on stage, so I started in television and film.
