D. B. Sweeney Quotes
If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
Quotes to Explore
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I love when actors can let go of where and how they have to do it, and just that we do it. That we are flawed and human, and don't worry about how we look or who we are, or that it seems too old of a character if we're still young.
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It's always interesting to play a character that obviously has a secret.
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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
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EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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Some of the best things about being a vegetarian include, of course, contributing towards the welfare of animals. Being a vegetarian can also make you a healthier person, and it helps the environment. All of these things make vegetarianism worthwhile. It's really a win-win situation.
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We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
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Before being a player, I was a diehard fan of Roma, so I know what the fans felt when we won.
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I don't drink hot beverages.
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When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.
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Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us?
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Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that.
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I'd like to show people that if you put the hard work in and you believe in yourself, then you can do whatever you want to.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
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I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.
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A la Verte on devient montagnard.
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The process of writing is like creating a game of dominoes: The first domino creates the second incident, and so forth until the end.
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Drawing is the art of taking a line for a walk.
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We invite all to serve the Savior and walk in His paths straightway. There is an urgency for all of us who have this knowledge of His divinity to act upon it without hesitation or delay. The time is now.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
