David Milch Quotes
Humility has to do with trying to be a vessel of purposes you're content to understand as not your own.
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When I produce a movie - and I've produced a number of movies, unlike Arnold - yes, I'm frustrated when the union says you can't do this, you can't work past that hour, you've got to break for lunch. But ultimately, they're right. What they do is for everyone's benefit.
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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Kim Jong Un came in as a fresh face, so I think there's a great disappointment that he's playing the same game as his father.
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The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
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I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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I'm not super into sports.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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After university, I was working as a stylist in the Paris theatres when I had a flash of inspiration. I made necklaces from the bikinis designed for the cabaret performers of Folies Bergeres. I was so happy with them that it was only then that I sought out formal training in jewelry.
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When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
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People resent movies that try to tell them exactly what to feel.
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Dead people don't really die. They live on within you.
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The 13-episode model lends itself to a more serialised format, which is nice and gives writers a chance to breathe some space into it.
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If you can get to know a person, and you can really understand them, it can usually help you better understand yourself and why you believe what you believe.
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As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.
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Central banks are choosing to increase their gold holdings as a percentage of total reserves. They obviously think there is a reason to do that. It doesn't make sense to back up one currency with a hoard of other paper currencies. There needs to be a real anchor there. I think that central banks are well behind the curve. If you look at the percentage of above-ground gold controlled by central banks, it's historically low. Hence the fact that central banks are trying to increase their holdings. They've got a long way to go to get where they need to be.
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Humility has to do with trying to be a vessel of purposes you're content to understand as not your own.
