David Farr Quotes
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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America is huge.
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I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
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Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.
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Greenlanders' heart is the environment. You can't sell your heart for oil.
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I'm looking at some comedic horror films because I have often been accused of being too dark. I'm not dark, not compared with 'Saw' or anything like that. So I'm looking at live-action horror films, but not slasher ones - ones that have humor and maybe some social satire.
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Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic. (p. 84)
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You don't want to keep giving yourself a sugar spike and then crash and get exhausted and need coffee because you shoot for a long time. On set, I eat a lot of peanut butter and apples, things that have actual energy and protein in them to keep me going.
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I had a problem with cops pulling me over all the time for speeding. When I was doing Hill Street Blues, the cops said how much they loved the show as they were writing me up; meanwhile my insurance went through the roof.
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Directing is extrovert and gregarious; writing is isolating, introverted, and lonely.
