David Muir Quotes
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I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.
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Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.
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I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'
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What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.
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I have always loved animals since I was very young.
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You just try to learn and see what you can put in your repertoire, and that's what I try to do.
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They call people who love London 'Anglophiles' and people who love France 'Francophiles.' I'd be the New York version of that.
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I've got to believe I'm the first person to win the Newbery who has written a Harlequin romance!
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I grew up a vegetarian. Then, because I grew up in the states, I started slowly eating meat. First it was bologna sandwiches, or pepperoni on pizza.
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I probably prefer comedy. Why? I'm not sure. I feel like the energy of a comedy is a better fit for me. I try to be a happy guy! It seems that most of my life has the energy more for a comedy than for drama. I'm grateful to do both, but I would have to lean towards the comedy side of acting.
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Everyone gets a raise when they do well. No one asked me what I got for my initial films. There was a time I got paid Rs. 6 lakh. I charge what producers are willing to pay me.
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I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.
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With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?
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What cultural DNA remains from those first Puritan forays onto American soil may be our love of a fresh start.
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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
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I looked at my parents when I was 17, and I said, 'I'm moving to L.A.'
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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
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I've heard directing talked about as being a benign dictatorship, and I think that's probably the best way a director should be. They're open to collaboration and feedback from people, but ultimately, it's got to be that one person's vision. That's what I think makes a film really stand out.
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The world is getting so small. Young people are mobile; they want to travel around the world. When you travel around the world, you exchange culture, you want to make friends, you want to exchange things.
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I'm a smaller guy, so I train at a high pace.
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The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.
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I've grown up listening to Gorillaz, so for me to, like, be asked to be on the album is an honour.
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No, I don't belong to a retirement community.
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The evening news is evolving rapidly, and I think we have to be extraordinarily nimble.
