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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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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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.
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Then when I went to Iraq and saw the strength and character the men and women in our military service exhibit every day and their belief in what they're doing, I knew I wanted to get that on film and share it with everyone. They are my inspiration.
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In my opinion, British women are more romantic than French ones.
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I love when people are coming up and they're working hard and you can see that they're really focused on the process to their music. I really dig that. As a musician, it's nice to see people who really care about the process.
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Growing up, I would have to watch the other children and learn from my mistakes. I would have to push myself to overcome the things most people don't have to think about. Brushing my teeth was very difficult because of the noise of the brush.
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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.
