David Morse Quotes
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
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I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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Part of any solution to get our economy going should include steps to free up our small businesses by peeling back unnecessarily burdensome regulations, ending the continual threats of tax hikes, and addressing the cloud of federal debt that hangs over our economy.
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It's just difficult to see that people want to be like the actors and the performers and the politicians who are - who they see all the time, but the people that are probably having the most fun are the writers and the directors and the producers and the scientists, right, the people in the back that are getting to do the creative process.
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It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.
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Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette. I dress for men.
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Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
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We are a diverse country, but we are one country. And we are at our best when we come together as Americans, not despite our differences, but in celebration of them.
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Mike Leigh and Ken Loach are the people I look up to. They are quality film-makers making interesting, controversial, ground-breaking movies with very little eye on the marketplace.
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It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
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I really bristle when I get called to events and people introduce me as one of the top black anchors in the country. You know, that's very insulting. I'm striving to be one of the best anchors in the country. Handcuff me like that. What you're saying is, 'You're black. You should only expect to rise to the level of the best at being black.'
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Everything is interesting to me.
