David Ives Quotes
Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.
Quotes to Explore
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The world is always in movement.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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Now is the only thing that exists.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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My touchstone for every question is the Constitution.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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There is always that one person in our lives who we deeply love, and that person can also destroy us.
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I think people get confused: people think 'strong female characters' mean you need to play an action figure.
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I think #OscarsSoWhite is about there not truly being enough people of color represented.
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It began to be borne in upon Lord Ickenham that in planning to appeal to the Duke’s better feelings he had omitted to take into his calculations the fact that he might not have any.
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We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other.
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Plays are always about intense relationships, whether they're intense love relationships or family relationships or existential relationships.
