Douglas Carter Beane Quotes
I inherited the old family turkey farm, and I'm turning it into a fun place to go for my kids.
Quotes to Explore
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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I am a big PETA supporter, and their East Coast headquarters is the Sam Simon building, and their West Coast headquarters is in the Bob Barker building.
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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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I'd rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It's the process I like - the same with getting dressed. If I've got someplace to be, I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event. Sometimes. Even in my own closet, I love to dig and search and find.
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Many of the companies in the mobile location space are trying to figure out different ways to tie what they're doing to commerce.
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The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.
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I'm scared of any fighter I've ever fought because they are some dangerous people to be dealing with. That's also where the anxiety comes from.
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I never studied jazz technically; I just know and love the music.
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Tim Burton's 'Sleepy Hollow' has got to be the most gorgeous, sumptuous, painterly movie ever made about multiple decapitations.
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School just speeds things up... Without school it might take 70 years before you wake up and are able to count.
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I don't believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue ... It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.
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When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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I inherited the old family turkey farm, and I'm turning it into a fun place to go for my kids.
