David Naughton Quotes
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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My Kindle readers have been incredibly faithful fans.
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I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
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I've found just the right amount of balance in my life. I'm this pop artist in America, but I'm also Malaysian. And I'm also Muslim.
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Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.
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Sure, I have a lot of friends that are actors. Just because I guess I run into a lot of actors in my work.
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Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices.
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Writing for me is a dragnet that carries everything away with it: expressions and figures of speech, postures, feelings, thoughts, troubles. In short, the lives of others.
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I've had social anxiety forever - I don't thrive in social or party settings.
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I buy Coppertone Water Babies in abundance at the airport, SPF 60 or 70. I like being pale; I like looking like a creature from the dead world. I like looking like a ghost.
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My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug 'Vanity Fair.' You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.
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Comedies are something I'd be very interesting in doing.
