David Lange Quotes
On seeing a machine labelled 'media steriliser', Lange quipped: 'Have that sent to my office immediately.'
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I always tell women that the fact that you're different and that you're noticed, because there are few of us in the tech industry, is something you can leverage as an advantage.
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.
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Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
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A few years ago, when I had no work and started believing that films weren't a viable career, I thought of finding another job. I started training and riding horses and got consumed by that. It was a boon in disguise.
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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.
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When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
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I've seen so many excellent actors - excellent actors - who, the minute they're told they're in a comedy, turn into God knows what - creatures from another planet! I mean they just... the voice changes, they don't look the same, it's like - it has no similarity to any living human being, do you know what I mean?
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I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.
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You experience your soul each time you sense yourself as more than a mind and body, your life as meaningful, or you feel that you have gifts to give and you long to give them.
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This was the first time a woman in Dallas had won public office of any kind - even women questioned whether or not I was qualified, whether or not I could take it.
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My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.
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I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to deliver that material.
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You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.
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If a man has any genuine talent, he should be ready to make almost any sacrifice in order to cultivate it to the full.
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En lo superficial, si no eres superficial, necesitas que te lleve de la mano alguien superficial.
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I think you work on the roles that draw you in and the stories you want to tell.
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Work with good directors. Without them your play is doomed. At the time of my first play, I thought a good director was someone who liked my play. I was rudely awakened from that fantasy when he directed it as if he loathed it. . . . Work with good actors. A good actor hears the way you (and no one else) write. A good actor makes rewrites easy. A good actor tells you things about your play you didn't know.
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I could be working 300 hours a week. I just say 'no.' The power of slow is the power of no. I can't go to every party I get invited to. I can't do every work thing.
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Alabama now has become the only state with an income tax threshold below one-half of the poverty line. Every other state that taxed the incomes of the poor in the early 1990s has reduced or eliminated this tax burden. Alabama stands alone in its failure to act.
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Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.
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One class. No masters. No slaves. No black. No white. No Jew. No Christian. One race-- The human race.
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On seeing a machine labelled 'media steriliser', Lange quipped: 'Have that sent to my office immediately.'
