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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For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.
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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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I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!
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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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I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian.
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We aren't, as human beings, very good at acting in our best interest.
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I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one.
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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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I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.
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When I'm writing a story, I try to reduce it to the barest possible components and go from there.
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Showbiz and churches are the same thing. You never saw 'The Wizard of Oz?'
