David Novak Quotes
The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
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Even though my earlier film 'Idhu Yenna Mayam' didn't do well, I got a lot of good feedback.
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The world has crafted a beautiful balance of collective action - common but differentiated responsibility and respective capabilities.
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Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.
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Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.
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That's one of the difficult things of being an actor that I'm still not used to. You have to go, you have to show up at these places where you know nobody, and sometimes with really impressive, high stakes people like Roman Polanski.
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The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it.
