David Rabe Quotes
I never found a professional environment that made the production of plays efficient. Teamwork is demanded, but there are very few teams.
David Rabe
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I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.
Idris Elba
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Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
Bear Grylls
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There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.
Ted Koppel
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
B. F. Skinner
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
Adam Draper
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Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
E. M. Forster
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It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.
Laura Esquivel
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
Nathan Fillion
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Time is important to me because I want to sing long enough to leave a message. I'm used to singing in churches where nobody would dare stop me until the Lord arrives!
Mahalia Jackson
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A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
J. Paul Getty
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
Hansie Cronje
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People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life.
Pat Benatar
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
Kate McKinnon
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All of us, the government, parliament, local authorities and the society must demonstrate determination and readiness to use knowledge and capabilities... toward full European integration.
Igor Luksic
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The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.
Walter Kirn
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde
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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
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As an actress, I value and rely on peaceful self-expression, not only in my daily life, but also in my professional work. This is particularly true, as my commitment to the promotion of human rights is an integral part of my calling as an artist.
Nazanin Boniadi
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Most simply, 'present shock' is the human response to living in a world that's always on real time and simultaneous. You know, in some ways it's the impact of living in a digital environment, and in other ways it's just really what happens when you stop leaning so forward to the millennium and you finally arrive there.
Douglas Rushkoff
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Naturally, my body language changes given whatever environment I'm in.
Christina Ricci
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Technology has enabled an environment where information is constantly fed to us on a real-time basis. You can't slow the feed of information, nor would you want to, but you can control and organize your consumption.
Dinesh Paliwal
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
Edmund White
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I never found a professional environment that made the production of plays efficient. Teamwork is demanded, but there are very few teams.
David Rabe
