David Wain Quotes
I was hired to do this one great script called 'Cap'n Ricky' and that project is up in the air at the moment.
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Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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I'd always gone to the theater as a child every month to see whatever was on. I think that's where the passion for it came from.
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God isn't really interested in our batting averages.
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The creative scientific process is - It's kind of - It's a windy road that has a trajectory, but it's a slow trajectory.
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From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.
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Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
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As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
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Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story – my favorite records have a narrative feel.
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Women get exhausted and beat down, and you just want to cry.
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I have a pig valve.
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God does not exist-religion in science is an absurdity, in practice an immorality and in men a disease.
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I've always loved fantasy books. Even just growing up, I've always kind of loved magic and fantasy.
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Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusive.
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I was hired to do this one great script called 'Cap'n Ricky' and that project is up in the air at the moment.
