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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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
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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'm not a policy wonk, and I don't dream of being a political operative.
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And it is long since I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.
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I'm not a really firm believer in theatre that is 'about anything.' I don't think theatre can be about anything other than the people who show up and the value that they hold.
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In that intensely busy time of children and work, soup became my stalwart friend and I learned its true value. Anyone who's been there knows. You're busy, too much to do, time vanishes, the kids are relentless, and everyone is hungry all the time. Something as comforting, delicious, and practical as soup is like gold.
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I think people underestimate the value of collaboration, especially for writers.
