David O. Selznick Quotes
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
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If you go to a paintball subreddit, paintball companies can advertise to you.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.
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I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.
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When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.
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I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
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I was pretty young when I decided I wanted to, well, more so be a singer. I started singing in church in my hometown, East Orange, New Jersey. I knew when I was about five or six that I wanted to be a performer.
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There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s into pop songs.
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Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
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One of the things that was kind of shocking for humans... was to come to terms with was the fact that, hey, we may not be the center of the universe.
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I think that I've always been attracted to characters who are positive and come from a very innocent place. I think there's a lot of room for discovery in these characters, and that's something I always have fun playing.
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I don't know if I will ever get sick of performing a song called 'Feels Like Loneliness' from Evolution. It's inspired by one of my favorite songs, 'Fever' by Peggy Lee. It's got a jazzy feel to it and I'm always able to put on a bit of character when I sing it, which is fun.
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I try to ignore it, but it's sinking in that I'm, I'm all alone with me.
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It's probably worth noting that although I'm ethnically Greek, my grandfather was actually born in Turkey and came through Greece on his way to the United States.
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It's all right; it's not so much fun any more.
