Garth Davis Quotes
I'm very drawn to the human condition and the emotional aspects of stories. It's what's not on the page that I get excited about.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.
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'Fargo' is one of my favorite movies.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Your best teacher is your last mistake.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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The craziest thing I've ever done to get a guy's attention? I admit I stalked someone. I showed up at a restaurant where I knew the guy worked, and we were actually good friends and had lost touch, and I pretended that I didn't know he worked there.
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When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.
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In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
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Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.
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'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
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If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.
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The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, they cry, and if they are in a good mood, they're in a good mood.
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Faced with stress, too many people feel they have nowhere to turn to, that they don't have access to the kind of friendships or communities where they can easily and openly share their problems and worries.
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To survive is to win.
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Winning is like shaving - you do it every day or you wind up looking like a bum.
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I'm an emotional eater. If something's worth celebrating, we're going to grab pizza. If it's going bad, girl, pass me the chocolate. Gotta keep it in check!
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I'm very drawn to the human condition and the emotional aspects of stories. It's what's not on the page that I get excited about.
