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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The idea is to choose good roles and good movies. I don't want to act simply to remain in the industry, nor am I here to do glamour roles.
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In my view, a corporation is not a person. A corporation does not have First Amendment rights to spend as much money as it wants, without disclosure, on a political campaign.
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It doesn't have to glitter to be gold.
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That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess.
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'The David Letterman Show' is a show of comedy.
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There's this incredibly young, dynamic, educated population in Iran that is essentially pretty pro-American.
