Donald Freed Quotes
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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Corruption is everywhere. It's not just in the Congress. Corruption is not just your prerogative or mine.
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All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
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I used to have to force myself to go, okay, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing and then all of a sudden a thought of some where could come in. Now I can just focus and not think about anything. So, yeah, I guess I do that a lot.
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MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.
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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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Marriage is a gamble, let's be honest.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They've needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.
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I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.
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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
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I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.
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The moment to tell my barber I was gay just never came up.
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There's still a bit of a problem, in that so many leading English roles are taken by American or French actresses.
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My friends have to remind me that it's OK to own the fact that you're good at something. I think it'll just come with getting older.
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I think I will always be performing; I don't think I can take that away. Because I really just enjoy it. I like getting up to sing; I like the challenge of learning new material and singing it in front of an audience.
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I love high concept movies, but they can only work if the source of inspiration is really human - if they're driven by pain and strong emotions. Once you connect the audience with that, then I swear you can take them on the craziest journey, and they'll come along.
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I'm not the American Nightmare. I am the American Dream!
