Nicholas Pileggi Quotes
I know there are women, like my best friends, who would have gotten out of there the minute their boyfriend gave them a gun to hide. But I didn't. I got to admit the truth. It turned me on.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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I think when you're doing good work, you don't necessarily need to be validated.
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Spike Lee gave me the greatest reaction to the fact that I was this athlete-meets-artist, because I think he saw that I was different. I learned that oftentimes, Spike directs in a sense that he might just stare at you and look at you in a telepathic way of communicating.
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Even if I tried to fill up the stadium in Ramat Gan, I don't think I could.
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I envision a day when a businesswoman will be having lunch, and then her phone will ring. When she opens it up, she will see an image of the latest Marc Jacobs coat that just arrived in stock. With a click of a button, she can purchase it and then find it waiting for her when she gets back to her office.
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I feel sorry for people who only know comic books through movies. I really do.
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I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting history to young people in particular.
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Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.
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I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.
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All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don't know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally.
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Tell that to the marines-the sailors won't believe it.
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The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
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The watchers below pulled in their breath all at once. The air felt suddenly shared. The man above was a word they seemed to know, though they had not heard it before.
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It's been my experience with damaged people: they don't wake up every day and wallow in the bad things that have happened to them.
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What I do is interpret, not create. I may add elements and do something different. That is what is so incredible about theatre. Why do we love it that there are nine Hamletsor six King Lears over two years? We love to watch a different actor attack the same material.
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Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.
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The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time just to avoid it. Bizarre really - desperate economic migrants are driven to leave their homeland because of poverty; tax exiles are driven overseas by their wealth.
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I believe that all women of working ages and physical capacity, regardless of income, should be expected to earn their livings either in or out of the home. Until this attitude prevails I believe the position of women will be uncertain and undignified, in spite of poetic rhapsodies to the contrary.
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I know there are women, like my best friends, who would have gotten out of there the minute their boyfriend gave them a gun to hide. But I didn't. I got to admit the truth. It turned me on.
