David Ortiz Quotes
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What I'm mainly interested in is not having women characters that have to be perfect, obviously. That's something I feel strongly about and have that in every single thing I've ever done.
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The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never know with his mind where things go. It's the same with Steven Spielberg, too.
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The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'
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I am methodical about my email inbox, and I always have a physical to-do list. Without those two things, I think I'd lose my mind.
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I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
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If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me.
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It's so funny, actors usually have a directing ambition. I've got no ambition for directing.
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I try to be a nice person, but it's difficult sometimes.
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There can be no security where there is fear.
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When I was in high school, I had a gambling problem.
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If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
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I am legitimately Scottish. I can officially say - yes. Yeah, I am from Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland.
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For all that faire is, is by nature good; That is a signe to know the gentle blood.
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Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me - the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.
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p. v; Preface first edition
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To be independent to my mind does not mean to be isolated, to be the priest or the Levite, but rather to be the good Samaritan. There is no real independence save only as we secure it through the law of service.
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Tariq: I do it for the girls
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'We used to say, 'They have everything, but it.' We had nothing, but it'.
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On the whole, there is nobody like one's own mother... I wonder if, after all, mothers are not the best friends there are!
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I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
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All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory.'
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Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can be, at the same time as creating our fictional characters and, hopefully, telling a good story. The challenge is weaving the fiction into the history.
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My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.
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I've always been my own hitting coach.
