David Zabel Quotes
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My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values.
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I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.
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It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
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When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.
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We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
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If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
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Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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For my money, when you're doing an on-camera performance, unless it's for something particularly stylised, you are, by and large, striving for naturalism.
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Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.
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I'm always writing. It might be a bad song, but I'm always writing.
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I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes.
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My mom knows when something is real and something is not.
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I started acting in my parents living room when I was five years old.
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So many times, my mom would say, 'It's not too late to go law school.'
