David Weinberger Quotes
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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I know a lot of actors who get a part and then they dissect it and they want to change it and they want to add stuff. I'm always amazed and so impressed by actors who do that.
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Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.
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Reba is very, very close to everyone around her. She's a classy lady.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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My general idea of the world is that I'm not different at all because I'm a girl. So I get blindsided sometimes because I forget that that's a thing.
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When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.
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War on terrorism reflects, in my view, a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy for a superpower and for a great democracy with genuinely idealistic traditions.
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If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.
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I don't separate things out between what's personal and what's my work. My passion is personal.
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A police force, wherever they are, is made up of amazing people, and I respect them a great deal.
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My chief identity, to my mind, was not 'writer' but 'college dropout.'
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Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck.
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I am still the same person doing the same science. Why are people so impressed when some academy in Sweden gives an award?
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The song 'Laughing Down Crying' is not a typical Daryl song.
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If I ask my actors to bare themselves, to reveal themselves as almost naked, I have to bare myself, expose myself as well. That's what creates excitement.
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It has become much more difficult to smuggle dangerous substances across our borders over the past three years, and this is creating real problems for drug traffickers.
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In brief, when women batter, men’s first priority is to support the women and help them change; when men batter, women’s first priority is to escape the men and put them in prison.
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To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata.
