David Lindsay-Abaire Quotes
Having deadlines helps because people are constantly breathing down my neck, and tapping their toes waiting for pages. So I just have to work nine to five. If I didn't have deadlines then I might be more of a golden hour kind of guy, writing from eight to noon and calling it a day, but that's just not the way I work right now.
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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I'm not Cinderella.
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A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.
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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
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If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I want to be able to be a father to my kids, where I've never seen my father, but my kids can see me whenever they want, so that was broken.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real guitar and drums, and sing. And I'm taking some college classes, hoping to major in English and creative writing.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.
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The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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Helen devises plans to become a monster herself.
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I've always been self-motivated, but I can't take a ton of credit for any success I've had.
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Having deadlines helps because people are constantly breathing down my neck, and tapping their toes waiting for pages. So I just have to work nine to five. If I didn't have deadlines then I might be more of a golden hour kind of guy, writing from eight to noon and calling it a day, but that's just not the way I work right now.
