Gary David Goldberg Quotes
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
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Low budget movies make lots of money.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
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I'm 21 years old, and it's kind of uncomfortable for me to talk about, but I'm in the 1 percent as far as my income and tax bracket. But now that I'm here, there's no amount of money you can wave in front of my face that will make me understand depriving people of human rights.
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I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
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I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.
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The United Nations passed so-called sanctions again on North Korea, and they've said they 'will exercise their preemptive right to a nuclear attack.' I don't think this ought to be taken kindly.
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I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.
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I think higher education is over-regulated.
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I think there are telegrams that may or may not be available, which indicated that I very much had in mind the need to give Europe substantial aid after the war, after Lend-Lease was over.
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I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities of a theme. Like his, her books seem long, unbroken threads, seamless progressions of effects.
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I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?
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I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.
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A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated.
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One would think that it would be very easy, with an iconic character like James Bond, to keep making the films, but it hasn't been. But, it sure has been entertaining and rewarding.
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Authors of books are not given very much control over the films that are made from their books.
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Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
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Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
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I was reduced to pure concept. My flesh had dissolved; my form had dissipated. I floated in space. Liberated of my corporeal being, but without dispensation to go anywhere else.I was adrift in the void. Somewhere across the fine line separating nightmare from reality.
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I think to the extent you die with money in the bank, you've miscalculated.
