David Lindsay-Abaire Quotes
Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
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I think I need security.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?'
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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I definitely want my fans to know that I'm here to stay, and I'm going to continue to give them hot music.
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I do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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Life ain't always beautiful, but it's a beautiful ride.
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There is no way of being almost funny or mildly funny or fairly funny or tolerably funny. You are either funny or not funny and there is nothing in between. And usually it is the writer who thinks he is funny and the reader who thinks he isn't.
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One of the things that I love about voiceover is that it's a situation where - because you're not encumbered by being seen - it's liberating. You're able to make broad choices that you would never make if you were on camera.
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I like a lot of documentaries, I like political movies and political thrillers. But I also like a good action movie. I like a pretty wide range.
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That it should be the questions and shape of a life, its total complexity gathered, arranged, and considered, which matters in the end, not some stamp of salvation or damnation that disperses all the complexity into some unsatisfying little decision - the balancing of scales.
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Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.
