David Milch Quotes
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I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
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We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.
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At some hotels, I feel like I have to be dressed to the nines - perfectly eccentric - to walk out the door.
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I love what I do. And why not be nice? I mean, I've seen people who work and they're apparently not enjoying it, and they're making sure everybody knows it.
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How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.
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Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won't do much because of my age.
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The less I talk about being black, the better.
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If I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off. But, I wouldn't have expected to be shot.
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If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
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A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track.
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Have you recently been through a challenge, disappointment, break up or disloyalty with somebody in your life? If so, it's important after you've been hurt, to take some time to think like a lion tamer about your pain, so you can tame the possibility of more negativity coming back to bite you again!
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We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.
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Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.
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A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
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I hate having my photograph taken.
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Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.
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We reason of these things with later reason And we make of what we see, what we see clearly And have seen, a place dependent on ourselves.
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Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.
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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.
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The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him.
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Everyone thinks offers are always pouring in. Offers have never poured in. Never. I was auditioning a lot, but I didn't get the jobs.
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I enjoy helping. I like doing benefits and things like that, but don't feel the need to be thanked or even meet the people I am doing the benefit for.
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The more the ensemble, the duet or the forty piece orchestra, plays as one person, the more it makes people dance, because you're back in the womb. You feel mom's heartbeat. It makes you move. It reminds you of that warm, groovy space you were in.
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Showbiz and churches are the same thing. You never saw 'The Wizard of Oz?'
