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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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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Judge: Do you want Mr. Bryan sworn?
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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The most important thing I can say is to make music that moves you. Don't try and chase what's on the radio or what you think people want to hear.
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The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.
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I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.
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In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing teachers and musicologists. The entire course of study has confirmed what I already thought, that the value and meaning of opera singing, at the beginning of the third millennium, remain intact.
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I think people underestimate the value of collaboration, especially for writers.
