Akiva Goldsman Quotes

I have now become so infatuated with television. I think television has become elegant.

Akiva Goldsman

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• Women in salsa - women everywhere - we always gotta be defending ourselves.

  

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• Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

  

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• One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.'

  

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• The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.

  

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• I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.

  

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• My partner has to have good sized bones.

  

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• I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.

  

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• As long as I was well fed, I was a very, very nice child. I just used my imagination and played with Barbies. I was pretty easy.

  

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• I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

  

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• Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.

  

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• But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.

  

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• In a perfect world, I only act when I really want to. I don't do most of the stuff that is out there, but it's a joy and a pleasure to do anything that promotes this higher power - this light, if you will. I just think there aren't enough projects in the world that do that.

  

  Olivia Hussey
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• I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking. My mum was a hearth mother: she loved to gather us all around her - Sunday lunches were a big thing. She was very good at thinking on her feet - people used to say she should go into politics.

  

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• I've always adored my father's music, but ever since I'd started singing, whether it was while I was still a student at the University of Massachusetts or professionally, I avoided Dad's material.

  

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• Most producers I've known were writers first, and writing is a vital part of any game show. You could easily argue that the writing is the key ingredient that makes 'Jeopardy!' so great.

  

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• She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television.

  

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• There really is no foolproof or even optimal way of dealing with White House emissaries who tell whoppers on live television. On the one hand, there's value in hearing what our government has to say about its actions and vision for the future. On the other, news organizations are responsible for the factual hygiene of their product. In some cases, those two imperatives just aren't compatible.

  

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• The best part of the high school in Hastings must have been the Music Department. Its orchestra and concert band did well in county competitions, and the dance band formed by its students was the best in the region. I played lead trumpet in all of them.

  

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• It's unfathomable how you live without your mother.

  

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• If you're going to be a writer you should sit down and write in the morning, and keep it up all day, every day. Charles Bukowski, no matter how drunk he got the night before or no matter how hungover he was, the next morning he was at his typewriter. Every morning. Holidays, too. He'd have a bottle of whiskey with him to wake up with, and that's what he believed. That's the way you became a writer: by writing. When you weren't writing, you weren't a writer.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Up
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• I have now become so infatuated with television. I think television has become elegant.

  

  Akiva Goldsman
  • Television
  • Infatuated