David S. Goyer Quotes
Mysticism and the supernatural are embedded in the show - it's called 'Da Vinci's Demons' for a reason, and it's not just metaphorical.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.
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A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.
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I have no discipline, which is a horrible flaw for any writer. Once I'm well started on a project, though, then I'm addicted to it all day long. When it's done, I collapse and have to really kick myself to start a new one.
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I started going to acting school in my senior year in high school, and I remained in acting school through four years of college.
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Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.
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My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't write without feeling he was repeating himself. That's the worst thing that can happen to a writer.
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I had written a script called 'Freed,' which I had wanted to direct.
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I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.
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And we shared the story of Korean War veteran Dick Shank, who made it home to that baby boy, and lived out his life - at 84 years old, he was still roller skating - because no war should ever be forgotten and no veteran should ever be overlooked.
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The emphasis of the men’s group was on understanding, coping, changing the situation and then, if all else failed, getting out; the emphasis of battered women’s groups is on getting out first, and second, locking up the problem (the man).
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Your brother is still young enough to believe that the past still exists, he said. That the injustices within it await his remedy.
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Foreknowledge is power.
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Romantic relationships are the least interesting thing for me to write about. I'm 45, and that's not the most interesting thing in my life anymore.
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I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.
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Some people plan their life out, and it occurs. Others have things they're thinking about, and things don't go that way.
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Despite the hours spent debating different models of general education, the choices faculties make rarely lead to any significant difference in the cognitive development of undergraduates.
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Work while others are wishing.
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We give credit to human wisdom when we should give credit to the divine guidance of God being exhibited through childlike people who were “foolish” enough to trust God’s wisdom and His supernatural equipment.
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The essence of a software entity is a construct of interlocking concepts: … I believe the hard part of building software to be the specification, design, and testing of this conceptual construct, not the labor of representing it and testing the fidelity of the representation.
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Once established, reputations do not easily change.
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Mysticism and the supernatural are embedded in the show - it's called 'Da Vinci's Demons' for a reason, and it's not just metaphorical.
