D. B. Sweeney Quotes
You get a lot of speeding tickets, and you say, 'I'm so unlucky!' No, you're not. You're speeding. Slow down.
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
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I voted for you during your last election.
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The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.
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Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room. For most, meals were informal, a kind of rolling refueling; often only the men sat down.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
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You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.
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Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.
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When you write something, at first you might feel very defensive and protective of every single thing, but after a while, you just see what works and what doesn't. Sometimes you do test screenings, and an audience tells you that, or sometimes you eventually just go, 'Let's cut the joke out.'
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Do not deprive someone of his livelihood. This is a sinful tendency.
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Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.
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'Moonlight' changed me. To see people so moved by this movie inspires me to find something else to offer. And maybe the next one touches only five people or maybe just one person. To me, you know, that would still be worth it.
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You get a lot of speeding tickets, and you say, 'I'm so unlucky!' No, you're not. You're speeding. Slow down.
