David Milch Quotes
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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But, I swear, they're turning Donna into Annie Hall this season. More ties. More suits. But they're also keeping her really motivated, ya know? Like, wanting to be a rock journalist. Wanting to be the first woman president.
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I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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Inspire your children. I promise, your kids will think you're cool if you do this. They may not tell you that now, but they'll thank you later in life.
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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.
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Whether it was Little League or playing with your brothers or sisters, that was always a problem. If I would lose - because I very rarely lost - then everything would go crazy.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
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I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.
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Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
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I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
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I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.
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People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
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It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
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I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
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It should not be the government running the economy.
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Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.
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I'm concerned about the ocean and the environment. And I love whales.
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There is not an amount of money that a writer can earn that I can't blow.
