Daisy Berkowitz Quotes
What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.
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Buildings are always better than drawings and models.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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When you're in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to grade, I'm still going to say that it's a really awesome song whether I got an A or a D. I learned to stick to my guns and take the tools as tools and not as rules.
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I love to watch 'Chopped,' 'Jeopardy,' and 'Breaking Bad.' You can't pass up that one. Oh! One other show I love to watch is 'Suburgatory.'
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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I always say the greats just get better.
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The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
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When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
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I always have plans to return to the stage. I leave myself very open. I think what would be more likely is if I did a limited run of something, whether it be a play or a musical.
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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You have to create something from nothing.
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I've always been into older homes, even if I have to refurbish or remodel or raise roof lines or knock out walls.
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When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.
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Homer's work hits again and again on the topos of the inexpressible. People will always do that.
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As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.
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You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support.
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You only can rest when have the truth, even when it's horrible.
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The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.
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People are like, 'Was it hard growing up mixed?' 'Did you not fit in?' and I'm like, 'No? What? That's the dumbest question ever.'
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Plots may be simple or complex, but suspense, and climactic progress from one incident to another, are essential. Every incident in a fictional work should have some bearing on the climax or denouement, and any denouement which is not the inevitable result of the preceding incidents is awkward and unliterary.
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When you taste things in the right order, sometimes they taste so much different than if you taste them out of order. Not that there's a right order, like by rule, but just like in a thoughtful way that makes sense.
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What you hear about the band is always going to be more disturbing than any particular song.
