Tate Donovan Quotes
I was on 'The O.C.' and had a small part, which wasn't very challenging. I was a bit bored, so I started shadowing directors and they finally gave me a shot. From there, it led to directing other television shows. I am trying to direct a feature film, so we'll see what happens.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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Every loan that we did in the City of Detroit in the 10 years they studied - between 2005 and 2014 - were conventional FHA, VA loans with average interest rates of 6%.
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I was so proud when I was commissioned into the Army.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.
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You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'
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I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.
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Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.
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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 have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
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I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.
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When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin with his big-swollen face?
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There is lots of pressure to make a GOOD film. And not just a GOOD film but one that will somehow stand out in the sea of GOOD films.
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It wouldn't have existed without France, and it's a French initiative. As a filmmaker, I owe everything to France - I got accepted at a French film school that takes six directors a year. Once you're in, you make films under the eye of people in the industry. You grow up in front of their eyes.
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I was on 'The O.C.' and had a small part, which wasn't very challenging. I was a bit bored, so I started shadowing directors and they finally gave me a shot. From there, it led to directing other television shows. I am trying to direct a feature film, so we'll see what happens.
