David Elkind Quotes
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	When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.   
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	Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.   
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	I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.   
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	My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?   
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	I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.   
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	If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.   
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	Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.   
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	At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.   
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	Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.   
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	Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.   
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	I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.   
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	Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'   
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	It is key that Kansas Citians make the call as to what kind of airport they want.   
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	One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.   
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	I remember the great atmosphere and the great stadium.   
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	If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.   
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	I want to save duets and collaborations for outside of the album. With the albums, I like it just being me.   
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	I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.   
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	Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.   
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	Having my name kind of pop out on a page more so than other people helped in recruiting, helped in a lot of different areas. But when it comes down to it and you're talking about professional football - you can either play, or you can't. They don't care what your last name is at the end of the day.   
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	I give a lot to charity when it comes to clothes.   
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	One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.   
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	I hope for all of us that the future brings us towards evolving our consciousness. To delving deeper into our true power. To exploring more the key to sustaining our planet and our art for the better of all living things.   
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	Play is not only our creative drive; it's a fundamental mode of learning.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					