Stephen Karam Quotes
So much of great American drama has been about a certain kind of dysfunctional family, and maybe my interests are in the kind of strange dysfunction that exists even among deeply functional families.
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Regardless of what the record is, what the score is, you always go out there and compete.
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Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.
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My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
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The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.
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It may come as a surprise, but Frou Frou was really like a kind of little holiday from my own work. Guy and I, we have always worked together, and then over the years, it became clear that we wanted to do a whole album together. It was very organic and spontaneous - just one of those wonderful things that happens.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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The new 'Joy' was needed for a number of reasons. Recent developments in nutrition and new ingredients were two of the major reasons for the revision. One of the other big reasons was America's new love for big flavors. Yay!
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I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.
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The Premier League is difficult. The small teams can beat the big teams.
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I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.
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Let us not let the world be defined by the destruction wrought by one virus, but illuminated by billions of hearts and minds working in unity.
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I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service.
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Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.
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I want to do movies but not talk about them.
Nastassja Kinski -
Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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Many of us are quite stupid.
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If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.
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I don't know what I've done that has made people so interested in me, more than anyone else.
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I'm not one of these people who say how much better American drama is than English. I find it mostly too American, except for The Sopranos, which I think is the best thing.
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Quite frankly, the bible is filled with advice that you'd never, want to follow. "Don't cut your hair on a rainy Thursday because locusts will eat your farm" kind of thing.
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So much of great American drama has been about a certain kind of dysfunctional family, and maybe my interests are in the kind of strange dysfunction that exists even among deeply functional families.
