Douglas Carter Beane Quotes
I love throwing myself into a place or a period or a point of view. In 'Fledermaus,' I loved throwing myself into the world of Vienna at the turn of the century. It was a lot of fun.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
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I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
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I never liked you, and I always will.
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Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.
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I love to smoke things; there's usually something always in the pot outside. That smell of something in the smoker just reminds me of home.
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I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it.
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We benefit tremendously from the E.U. Britain does very well in getting back E.U. money for the amount it puts in.
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Just to have the opportunity to play an American in America is a dream come true for me.
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When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself.
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I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.
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Whether people care enough about local news to pay for it is, sadly, an entirely different question than whether our democracy requires a strong watchdog function at the local level to ensure safeguards against abuse, chicanery, and outright dishonesty.
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"Pray when you feel like praying," somebody has said. "Pray when you don't feel like praying. Pray until you do feel like praying.
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I love throwing myself into a place or a period or a point of view. In 'Fledermaus,' I loved throwing myself into the world of Vienna at the turn of the century. It was a lot of fun.
