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 did a film a long time ago with a shaved head and I had the ugliest looking head in the world.
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Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies.
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I tried to hostess... but they fired me after four days because I couldn't figure out how seating plans worked.
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My first presidential primary vote was for Bobby Kennedy.
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The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.
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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.
