David Heyman Quotes
All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.
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I don't care if you are for having Mexico pay for the border wall, or you want to repeal and replace Obamacare, or if you want women to have complete access to reproductive rights - I don't care. The fact is, if you don't get the nuclear issue right, none of the other ones matter.
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I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
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Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.
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I do not need a producer. I need only a good production manager. I need only a man who will give me money.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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I think it's unfair that people can't give assets to whoever they want. When I die, my assets can go to my wife. And a gay person - you ought to have a system where maybe you can just say, 'You can give your assets to anybody you want.'
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I am permanently relaxed.
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My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other.
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Female influence came from my grandmother and my aunt. They would sing Corsican love songs while cleaning the house and dress all in black and say melodramatic things like: 'I want to die.'
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To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.
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D.C.'s a tough place to get love unless you're from D.C. It's like everybody hates you here. The only black person that everyone can agree on is Obama.
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America's presidents tend to die young. Maybe it is in the nature of the men who reach such heights, or of the job once they attain it.
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I'm a perfectionist.
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Fear created the first gods in the world.
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The more you put out there, the more you have to resolve. 'Air' is the most literary comic I've written so far, and that poses problems.
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Far from being the father of jihad, Mohammad was a peacemaker, who risked his life and nearly lost the loyalty of his closest companions because he was determined to effect a reconciliation with Mecca.
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The best class I ever took in high school was typing.
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I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.
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Social gaming is not something Zuckerberg could have imagined back when he was creating Facebook in his Harvard dorm room in 2004. The change began in May 2007, when Facebook announced it would let outside developers create applications that run on top of Facebook.
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The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.
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It did not feel like something that was going to take over my life and destroy it. It felt like a subtle flower instead of a manipulative demon. That's the mystery of heroin.
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All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.
