David Eigenberg Quotes
I obviously spent a lot of time in New York City, and I loved it, but Chicago has a very different history than New York City does.
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Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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When I look back, I am happy that my mum took me to the gymnastics club. I didn't join gymnastics to become a famous athlete or celebrity; it just happened - I did more than I expected, of course.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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I love my boys very much. I want only the best for them and am committed to being a devoted father.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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Self-publishing worked for me. Being able to put your work in print, even if it's a tiny print-on-demand print run of a dozen or so copies, shows publishers and editors a completed piece of work and that you can follow through on a project.
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I don't really live the bohemian life. I come to work in Midtown everyday, along with all the work-a-day folk.
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My dad planned a road trip every summer, so we always did the road trip. We did the Eastern Seaboard and learned about the history of the United States.
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There are so many different narrative traditions across the world, and each of those traditions has evolved dramatically over time. Once I understood that, I felt truly free; I could write and invent the way I wanted to because there never has been only one way to tell a good story.
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I obviously spent a lot of time in New York City, and I loved it, but Chicago has a very different history than New York City does.
