David Seltzer Quotes
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
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Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.
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I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
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No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
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Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.
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Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.
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Life started getting good when I started making money.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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I consider myself very lucky, essentially - I was put into a pop group even though my musical taste was very niche before.
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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John Spratt did a great job of constituent service. When somebody had a problem, he would jump on it. The reason I ran against him was that he was one way in the district and then when he got to Washington, he voted the opposite.
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I take great pride in recalling that I could open in a play on Broadway or in London's West End and fill a theatre on the strength of my name - Steed's name.
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What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.
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It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent.
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You can do a no-fly zone without ground forces.
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When I was younger, I used to just want to please everybody and not want to be an issue or not be considered a diva. I've just grown up and realized you have to look out for yourself and stick up for yourself, and there's nothing wrong with that.
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If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story.
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My role model, my idol, was Francois Truffaut.
