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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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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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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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 create a legal system that can work.
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I feel like maybe I'm part of that generation that became more of a gamer than a video consumer. It's always been something I've done with my spare time. If I had three hours on a Friday night, I'm not out partying. I'm probably playing video games.
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My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
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When I was younger I would go to the airport with my friends and drive out 2 A.M., 3 A.M. in the morning and just hang out until sunrise watching planes fly in and fly out. Just sit there and dream about how, one day, that's going to be us in those flights. We're gonna be one of those people with places to go.
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We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
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An artist's creative energy is ephemeral as a flower. It blooms and soon dies. No artist is great forever. Personally, I think I reached my peak in 2004 when I shot 'Samaria' and '3-Iron'.
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I actually became a producer because I saw the producers getting all the babes. They were stealing them from the guitarists.
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I'm instinctively a Conservative.
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Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.
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There's this incredibly young, dynamic, educated population in Iran that is essentially pretty pro-American.
