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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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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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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The term many presupposes the term one, and the term one presupposes the term many.
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I'm not really a partier, in general. I've definitely learned that that's probably the least interesting thing you can do with your time.
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Usually when I drank too much, I could guess why I did so, the objective being to murder a state of consciousness that I didn't have the courage to sustain--a fear of heights, which sometimes during the carnival of the 1960s accompanied my attempts to transform the bourgeois journalist into an avant-garde novelist. The stepped-up ambition was a commonplace among the would-be William Faulkners of my generation; nearly always it resulted in commercial failure and literary embarrassment.
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There was something about telling the lie-story and seeing your friends' eyes grow wide with wonder. Of course I got in trouble for lying, but I didn't stop until fifth grade.
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Sounding like I have agency in a song is important to me. I want to feel empowered by the music.
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Everything is interesting to me.
