Douglas Horton Quotes
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Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
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While you are improvising, you need to be prepared, and I like to have a sense of who the character is, what she likes to read, where she grew up, where we went to school, and what she has for breakfast, so that when I go to set, I'm free to explore.
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Through all the bad guys that I've played, they're justifiably bad - they have their reasons. It's been important to me.
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It's good to laugh at times that feel inappropriate.
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I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend my formative years in the Valley and all around L.A. proper. Through my teenage years and into my young adulthood, up until the age of 30, I spent a good amount of time there.
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We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.
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I've heard expressions like, 'Are you good in bed?' What does that even mean? For me, good in bed means sleeping seven hours. Undisturbed! If I get eight hours, that means I'm amazing!
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I was very good until I left home to go to a little college in West Virginia, and then I started to break some rules.
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The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.
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He who stops being better stops being good.
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If I have a bad shooting day, my dad will take me to the gym.
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I had the opportunity to go and read to cancer patients in hospitals and saw how something as little as that could make someone's day. I also think it's important to support people who are standing up for a good cause, so that's why I get involved with different campaigns and charities.
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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
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Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.
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I'm not good enough to flip in and out of my Brit accent to my American accent.
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Whatever you are, be a good one.
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Voluntary association produces the free market - where each person can choose among a multitude of possibilities.
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I was probably 21 or 22 years old when I realized the prose that I live by, which is, 'You get what you give.' The more good deeds that you could do in your life, the more fulfilling and enriched your life is going to be. I truly believe that.
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Comics shouldn't be 'tools' for anyone's agenda except for the characters. And I am speaking only of super hero action comics. I love many of the alternative comics that are like journalistic stories. Documentary comics, a mix of reportage and fiction. Those are just great.
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I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her fascinating.
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Dickens's final book, 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood,' forms the jumping-off point for my new novel, 'The Last Dickens'. This last work by Dickens has very little social commentary and a pretty tightly efficient storyline and cast of characters. Not necessarily what we think of when we think what characterizes Dickens.
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You can't really compare any TV show to a show written by Aaron Sorkin.
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Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.
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Good ideas are a dime a dozen, bad ones are free.
