Gary David Goldberg Quotes
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal.
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Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
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I've never considered myself to be a fashionista type of guy.
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When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.
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Most Americans have no memory of the designs Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had for postwar-American foreign policy. Human rights, self-determination and an end to European colonization in the developing world, nuclear disarmament, international law, the World Court, the United Nations - these were all ideas of the progressive left.
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Initially, I thought problems on how the brain works to be the most interesting. But it was necessary to be practical and concentrate on less obscure matters when I entered Washington State College. Besides, there were no courses given in neurobiology.
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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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I listen to music constantly while writing.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.
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Being born Roman and Romanisti is a privilege.
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I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
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I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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I play as I feel.
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The value of a decision as a precedent is very much enhanced by the care with which it has been considered, and if the opinion itself shows that other decisions of the same court, or of other courts upon the same point, have been reviewed and examined, it adds to the value of the decision made on each consideration.
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It used to upset me - now it makes me sad - to see people use patriotism and our troops as a pawn in their political argument. Because I know personally, growing up in a military family, the sacrifice that is made on a daily basis.
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Comic-Con is really cool. It's different. I like to people-watch. I like to see the costumes.
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It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.