David Milch Quotes
Commercials were once TV's version of the church. Which is to say, you couldn't offend the sponsor; therefore, certain values had to be underscored in the subject matter.
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I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.
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Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
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I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
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In 'Haraamkhor,' I have explored a few things which I wouldn't have been able to do in bigger films. The process of shooting this film was so organic that it enhanced me as an actor and an artiste.
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You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.
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I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
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If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.
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Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.
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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
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I'm better off working as opposed to lying around.
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Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out.
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Single mums do come in for a hard time. Society is incredibly judgmental. I know this.
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People need role models, and they need to feel that there's this opportunity to learn. They need to have people that will stick up for them. I want to be a part of that.
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
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Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers.
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Commercials were once TV's version of the church. Which is to say, you couldn't offend the sponsor; therefore, certain values had to be underscored in the subject matter.
