Akiva Goldsman Quotes
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.
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As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.
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We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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I want people to learn what democracy means.
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I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.
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It doesn't matter what country or what political system you are from. Space brings you together.
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A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
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As a male designer, you always need a woman's touch.
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I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.
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I'm really starting to think everything happens for a reason.
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I was 30 years old and this girl I knew found out I had never gotten high. Nobody had ever told me about marijuana.
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Our interests are indeed common European interests, and the only way to serve them is by common means. That is why all Europeans, and all E.U. member states, have a collective responsibility to strengthen our Union.
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Favoritism, elitism, leader-worship, they crept back and cropped out everywhere. But she had never hoped to see them eradicated in her lifetime, in one generation; only Time works the great changes.
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'Were I to use the wits the good Spirits gave me,' he said, 'then I would say this lady can not exist - for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes.'
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I don't like planning, because it robs me of freedom, so I'd like a 24 hours that was full of surprises.
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When you read a book, you are letting another person distract your thoughts and work your emotions. If they are adept, there's nothing better than turning off and getting lost.
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I think there is a value in leaving the world a little better off, and movies can do that in a minor way.
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If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it.
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When you value your family over anything else you're always going in the right direction.
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I think people underestimate the value of collaboration, especially for writers.
