David Lindsay-Abaire Quotes
I've been pretty well treated by the critics, but the critics who didn't like my comedies hated them with an unbridled passion, and then I would see these same people writing very respectfully about ordinary naturalistic plays.
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I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
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You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
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I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.
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Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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Before mobile phones, I used to call my parents from a phone box and reverse the charges.
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.
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Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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Soul is when you take a song and make it a part of you - a part that's so true, so real, people think it must have happened to you. … It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, do we? But it's a force that can light a room. Soul is like electricity, like a spirit, a drive, a power.
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In the field of biological weapons, there is almost no prospect of detecting a pathogen until it has been used in an attack.
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You can't tell me that I can't dress!
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Ergo vivida vis animi pervicit et extraprocessit longe flammantia moenia mundiatque omne immensum peragravit mente animoque.
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I've been pretty well treated by the critics, but the critics who didn't like my comedies hated them with an unbridled passion, and then I would see these same people writing very respectfully about ordinary naturalistic plays.
