David Geffen Quotes
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It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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I turned down a lot of films.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.
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I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
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Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
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Two thousand years of history Black History could not be wiped away so easily.
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I think of 'Mommy' as very simplistic or not simplistic, but I wish for the style to actually work with what you see onscreen and what you feel in that very moment. I hope we did not disrespect the characters by being too flamboyant when it's not necessary.
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Call me Ildar! Call me Abra-ca-da-bra! My name is my name.
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Nevertheless, this type of propaganda has a special value, for it serves to convince those who sign the appeal, of the necessity for carrying on propaganda; so a corps of propagandists, if I may use the term, is thus trained.
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As funny as it sounds, the best thing I got out of making a solo record was to realize how much I love being in a band.
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To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.
