David Rakoff Quotes
About the only thing that I have - or had, because it's failing me lately - is my memory. I had a really good memory. I was always terribly protective of that fact.
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I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
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Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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I moved to Dallas in 1975 and stayed there until 1980. That's when I decided it was time to move to L.A.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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If people make a lot of introductions, should they get recognized for it? I've never seen a score showing who's a good connector. That'd be useful, right?
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The fans treated me royally.
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The more time we invest imitating others, the less that's available to discover and be ourselves.
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I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.
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I grew up in the suburbs, so I figured 'Why not try downtown living?' And, honestly, I love it. I've been very pleasantly surprised at how much downtown Indianapolis has to offer.
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The good lawyer is the great salesman.
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Any part I do is a marriage of the words - what the playwright or producer or show runner's vision is - to how I would play it. It took me a while to get rid of 'Oh, they want it this way, so I'm going to do it how they want it.'
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About the only thing that I have - or had, because it's failing me lately - is my memory. I had a really good memory. I was always terribly protective of that fact.
