David Duchovny Quotes
Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it.
Quotes to Explore
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.
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You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
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You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.
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The concept of monogamy is an inheritance of a medieval time, when family would carry the tradition of the name and certain privileges. It's a way of organizing society, perhaps.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
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All of a sudden I discovered that I'm allergic to caviar. It was the perfect metaphor for my life. When I was only able to afford bad caviar, I could certainly eat my fill of it.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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America is huge.
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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
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There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
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I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
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I realized that my mother was at the center of my work, because now that my mother is no longer there, there's nobody left.
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I'm pretty sure I'm a doppelganger for Alan Alda. I'm a trannie; I'm a man.
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I'm really pleased to share the 'Station to Station' film. It has a very unorthodox structure; it's made up of separate one-minute films. So you watch this piece that is like time moving. Everything is democratised, whether it's a minute of Patti Smith or a single landscape with a drone, it's this amazing modern kaleidoscope.
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Verbal communication about music is impossible except among musicians.
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I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.
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Sometimes the better the writing, the harder it is to play because you really want to service it.
