David Milch Quotes
As a writer, I don't have a sense of my own position. I try to disappear and not to think of myself at all when I'm working.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
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We don't have performances as big as 'Lemonade Mouth' on 'Zeke and Luther,' but they're both amazing experiences; just, 'Lemonade Mouth' was a bit bigger. It was different for me.
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I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.
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I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.
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The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video.
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If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
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A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
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People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
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We can climb mountains with self-love.
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I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.
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Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.
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I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.
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It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.
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The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neighbours hate you.
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After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.
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The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.
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I just make good movies. That's the way I thank my fans.
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For the existentials, negation is their God. To be precise, that god is maintained only through the negation of human reason. But, like suicides, gods change with men.
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Guys that preach verse-by-verse through books of the Bible - that is just cheating. It's cheating because that would be easy, first of all. That isn't how you grow people. No one in the Scripture modeled that.
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You shouldn't marry unless the both of you are on the same page on a lot of things. Life is going to deal you blows, and you have to be together. Your values and priorities have to be on the same page; otherwise, it won't work.
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When you're coming into a company and, you know, have to do a transformation, what you really want to do is look at the company and say, 'Okay, here are the parts that the company does well. How do we get those genes to hyper-express? The genes that are getting in the way, how do you turn those off?'
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Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
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As a writer, I don't have a sense of my own position. I try to disappear and not to think of myself at all when I'm working.
