David Lindsay-Abaire Quotes
Film is mostly a visual medium, and so the director has much more control in terms of painting pictures and painting a performance. For theater, the director does everything he can and then says, 'Out you go,' and the actors are in charge of that stage every night.
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I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.
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If you are unhealthy, start by making small changes to become healthier. You are unique, beautiful, and worthy.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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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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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.
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I sold steaks over the phone in Omaha, Nebraska. Marbling, fantastic. That's what makes a great steak; a lot of people don't know.
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If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.
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However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.
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I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can.
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One thing I have been banging on about, we have a dessert deficit in the U.K. We still import a very large proportion of our desserts. I would ask everyone to go out and buy a British dessert.
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I am just trying to be a good, protective mother. I want to give Bertie as normal a childhood as possible while preserving his privacy.
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I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing, or getting too drunk to really do a very good job.
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Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.
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Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.
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Frasier will always hold a special place in my heart. He's a great character I Ioved playing, and he's still a wonderful part of my life. But he was a lot of work!
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When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.
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I'm not worried about misconception or a perception that's bad. If I were, I'd be chasing something all the time.
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Don't be a fish; be a frog. Swim in the water and jump when you hit ground.
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Only do not forget, if I wake up crying it's only because in my dream I'm a lost child hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands.
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Film is mostly a visual medium, and so the director has much more control in terms of painting pictures and painting a performance. For theater, the director does everything he can and then says, 'Out you go,' and the actors are in charge of that stage every night.
