David Labrava Quotes
Writing a TV show is totally different than writing features, or just, what I started doing is writing features. You write a little bit more organically. You start from the beginning to the end, beginning, middle and end.
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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There is always the fear of failure, and if you struggle, you become nervous, and that's when the underdogs have an opportunity to create a surprise.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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I would be concerned if any speech to Congress related any information that's new to the president of the United States.
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Whatever I have done so far has led me to 'Kaabil.' It is a big opportunity for me to establish myself more commercially. It is a huge platform.
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You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
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I'm a big fan of Elvis, man. I got 'Heartbreak Hotel' tattooed on my chest.
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I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
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When you grow up starving, you cannot point with pride to a book you've just spent six hours reading. Picking cotton, sewing flour bags into clothes - those were the skills my father grew up appreciating.
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When you're in prison, the progress of the outside world doesn't necessarily translate inside prison walls. You don't have any rights; it just doesn't progress along the same timeline.
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I've raised three kids. I'm a lawyer. I've written books on the Constitution.
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But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.
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Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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For a production that suggests a mysterious dreamscape, I have a particular affection for the Vivian Beaumont Theater. It is the largest dramatic space available in New York City in terms of plays, although musicals have been done there very successfully as well.
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Writing a TV show is totally different than writing features, or just, what I started doing is writing features. You write a little bit more organically. You start from the beginning to the end, beginning, middle and end.
