David E. Sanger Quotes
There's this incredibly young, dynamic, educated population in Iran that is essentially pretty pro-American.
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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I love my work but do not know how I write it.
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And I mean I never doubt anybody's record.
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I believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. I'm always the 'less is more' guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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I used to be so self-conscious about my braces that people thought I was shy - I just never talked. It took me a long time to realize, whatever, it's not like I'll have them forever, so I might as well enjoy it while I do!
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I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema.
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
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It's not like I'm sitting at home coming up with some secret beauty plan.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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I was pretty quiet as a child.
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With 'The Karate Kid' especially, there's been so many references and visual images from that film, you know? Who knew that 'Wax on, wax off' would become part of the American lexicon?
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Musically, I'm a huge fan of Stephen Sondheim, and I love, love 'Sweeney Todd.'
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There's this incredibly young, dynamic, educated population in Iran that is essentially pretty pro-American.
