David Simon Quotes
There are a couple of ideas for features that I would love to do. They happen to be comedies.
Quotes to Explore
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.
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It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
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My impression of Americans from the beginning is of the best, and I have never since had cause to alter my mind. They are a kind, sympathetic race of people and naturally proud of their country.
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A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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I'm a believer in home-made recipes and concoctions, so I stick to natural or herbal products as much as I can. I also meditate regularly to de-stress.
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I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.
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I'd love to work with Michael Buble, with Tony Bennett, with Damian Marley, with Andrea Bocelli.
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The best part of owning a blog is the fact that you are in control. You can write about anything you want to write about. You can decide how your blog looks. You can decide who to target. You can decide how to monetize the blog. You have full control!
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Ennius was the father of Roman poetry, because he first introduced into Latin the Greek manner and in particular the hexameter metre.
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I lived in Atlanta for a couple of years while getting my masters at Georgia State. I thought I hated it at the time, but I've been back a couple of times since, and there's no place I've lived to which returning is so much like visiting a place I only remember from my dreams.
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After I saw a couple of pictures put out by my fellow comedy-directors, which seemed to have abandoned the fun in favor of the message, I wrote Sullivan's Travels to satisfy an urge to tell them that they were getting a little too deep-dish, to leave the preaching to the preachers.
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Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness – perhaps unimaginative of me.
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We have always played classical music and always loved dance and pop music.
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There are a couple of ideas for features that I would love to do. They happen to be comedies.
