Tom Rachman Quotes
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I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.
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The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
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I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.
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In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.
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I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.
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Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.
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I think every business is definitely different. There are certain businesses where execution is everything.
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
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I think that probably the time that people stopped thinking of Starbuck as 'a woman' was when they stopped thinking of the old show.
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I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
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I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.
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If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.
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If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
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When people discuss religion, it is a pity that they often become excited and argue. We should merely listen, as one does on a dark night; we should merely gaze at the stars.
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If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
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I'm Italian, so I absorb other cultures through their food.
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When you get older, you kind of learn when something is done, you just walk away. Sometimes people just want to keep fixing things. But you know it's kind of just like your gut that tells you, "You're done, walk away" because you can always keep fixing it.
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Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.
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Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.
