Neal H. Moritz Quotes
You might have been able to fool people the first time, or something, but you really can't make a successful sequel today unless people really, really liked the predecessor.
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When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
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'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
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My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.
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When I think about voting, I can skip it and still see myself as a good citizen. But when I think about being a voter, now the choice reflects on my character. It casts a shadow.
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In the end, I need to be fulfilled in my work - that's more important than the money.
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I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.
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There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.
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Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
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I'm surprised as anyone about where I've ended up. Maybe it's because I say yes to things.
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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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Having had cancer, one important thing to know is you're still the same person at the end. You're stripped down to near zero. But most people come out the other end feeling more like themselves than ever before.
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She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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At the end of the day, I'm just trying to write a song that I like, that I'm not afraid to turn loose on the world. I do read a lot. I know a lot of people who read more, but I do try to keep a book in my hand most of the time, and I think that informs any kind of output that I'm going to have.
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Dick Wolf was my first boss after coming out of Sarah Lawrence.
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You might have been able to fool people the first time, or something, but you really can't make a successful sequel today unless people really, really liked the predecessor.
