Steven Bochco (Steven Ronald Bochco) Quotes
Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.
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I study history in order to give an interpretation.
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I have 250 contacts, employees, and investors who, anytime they come across something relevant, will share it with me. I wake up to 10-15 links that people have explicitly recommended for me. I don't have to look for news anymore; it flows to me.
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Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.
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I always wanted to live the lives of different people, portray characters that are different from me. But I could have done that in front of a mirror, also, I didn't need to do films for that. At the end of the day, it's this fame, recognition, popularity, the love and appreciation you get from your audience that drives you.
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Have you noticed how most directors are either bald or grey-haired?
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I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.
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If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.
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When you get into the game you've got be thinking, when I get into the attacking third I'm gonna be freakin' creative.
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I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.
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I have a hard time repeating myself.
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It is in the national interest to have the Flying Kangaroo. It's in the interests of our tourism industry. It's in the interests of jobs here in Australia.
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I love bingeing. 'The Wire' was my first binge, and the thing about bingeing is, when you are doing four or five hours a day for a number of days, it becomes a literary experience, closer to reading.
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Although I'm not an orphan and I can't lift a horse. I was, however, briefly famous for my feats of strength: at about age 11, I could competitively arm-wrestle a full-grown man.
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What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes it both powerful and exciting.
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To be very honest, I never thought I would graduate from high school. I got very lucky to get into an alternative high school, which really saved my butt.
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The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one’s clean linen in public.
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A man is entitled to only one great passion in a lifetime. Whether it’s music or a profession or a woman, everything else pales in its afterglow. The searing shock so changes one’s chemistry that if the object is lost, the experience can never be repeated. Only anticlimax remains.
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Well, a special screening was set up for government officials, so they didn't have to see the experience of going to see the film. They certainly aren't going to the projects to see for themselves the situation.
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I didn't want the words 'Spider-Man' attached to my name in any shape or form. Especially a singing one.
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Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.
