David Duchovny Quotes
I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels.
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The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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I've never asked a player if they would sign my shoe.
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Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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'Baahubali's success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
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I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.
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Too clever is dumb.
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I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
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I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and free of ambiguity. Whereas poetry is actually the home of ambiguity, ambivalence and uncertainty.
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Always smile back at little children. To ignore them is to destroy their belief that the world is good.
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Throughout the Middle Ages the sway of the Church over the moral and spiritual life of the people, her power to inspire and direct their enthusiasms and energies, her chance for molding their conceptions of life, were amazing and unparalleled by any other force.
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There was electricity in our village only for 2-3 hours a day, so all my life, I studied under a lamp.
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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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I envisioned that as my life: staying in academia to make a living and then taking summers off to write my novels.
