Akiva Goldsman Quotes
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I have invariably been in love when I haven't had the same reciprocated emotion at all. I don't choose to talk about my personal life because I believe that I don't want to, and I believe my personal life is personal.
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When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino.
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We live surrounded by critics, so let them talk, let them criticize me as much as they want. Ultimately, that makes me a better player.
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All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
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I am only about winning and getting better.
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We don't have access to a national forum that we had in those days, through the news magazines which were the television news of the time. It's very disturbing to me that we've sort of been pushed to the corners.
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I never listen to Led Zeppelin. But, I mean, I don't think Robert Plant or Jimmy Page listen to Led Zeppelin, either. We all probably obsessed over the same old blues records growing up.
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The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough.
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The notion of 'reduce and refine' is one I've pursued. I truly believe that by making things less complex, by finding innovative ways to make sustainability affordable, we can advance the notion that it is possible.
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When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.
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Being a former first lady doesn't prepare you to be president.
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I grew up in L.A., so I'm a huge Lakers fan and Kobe fan.
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If the Chinese can't buy U.S. products, they'll buy them from European countries and then develop stronger economic ties with France and Germany and perhaps side more with those countries when international issues flare up.
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I'm an active author: I travel to give readings and talks, although I know it's risky.
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One way or another, Gaza's residents must live in peace with Israel.
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The beauty of Rome is that you can wander into a pizzeria just about anywhere and get a real Italian pizza that's thankfully worlds away from the Super Supreme I used to order at Pizza Hut as a kid.
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Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those two sides has been responsible for most of the bloodshed in history.
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I'm not sure many writers are trying to reconcile all the things that are separated in our culture - body and mind, urban and pastoral, lyricism and hardboiled, men and women, joy and grief. I tried to do quite a lot, but I wanted to create a serious work of literature.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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Let there be a wide breadth of possible ways to create.
