Chad Harbach Quotes
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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It was only after university that I said to myself that I had to take the risk and have a serious go at acting. It's such a bizarre profession, because you have to be totally tough to deal with all those times when you're being turned down, and then really soft in order to access your character's emotions.
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
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Positivity is like a muscle: keep exercising it, and it becomes a habit.
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I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
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Most Israelis do want to keep Israel safe. The question is how do you do that.
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The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
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We don't swim for the attention. We don't swim to be rock stars. There is something beautiful about being in an anonymous sport and being fairly anonymous. It enables you do something you love without any of the other effects.
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Cheney shots his buddy in the face. Clinton shot his intern in the face.
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
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As a teenager growing up in the suburbs of Washington, I ritually watched the Sunday-morning political talk shows with my family. We parsed and argued and jeered at the screen as national figures delivered careful, poll-tested talking points.
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Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.
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Prose talent depends on having something to say and an interesting, highly developed way of saying it.
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The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that makes it fair or just. But that's not God.
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Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.
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Just because a guy rings your bell, doesn't mean you have to toot his horn.
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For many years I didn't have health insurance.
