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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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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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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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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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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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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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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Even when you're 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.
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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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One of the great barriers to peace in the Middle East is that both sides, both Israel and the Palestinians, do not understand that they share a collective destiny.
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I'm the great-great-grandson of a sheep stealer.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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I just stay healthy all year round. I try to feel good in my skin. For me, I have trained in ballet my whole life so my body really feels best when I feel strong and tight and toned, and I think that comes from years and years of constant training as a ballerina. Leading up to the show, getting out there in your underwear, you just want to feel your best mainly in your head than more anything else. Obviously you want to feel good physically too, so it's more just in your head, pushing yourself, approaching this challenge and taking the opportunity to push yourself a little further.
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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.
