Dan Mazer Quotes
I think actors like to be directed. Actors like to know where they're headed and what they want, so I'm very encouraging.
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I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.
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The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.
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My first novel, 'In the Drink,' begun when I was 29 and floundering and published when I was 36 and married, was about a 29-year-old woman whose life was even more screwed up than my own had been.
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A cat is never vulgar.
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A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.
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In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
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I love any opportunity I have to make music.
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I'm not a very gregarious person. I can't bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.
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If we follow the traditional way of thought, there will always be traditional enemies. Extremist circles from both sides will find causes to give rise to problems.
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People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.
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In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.
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When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.
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That man is blest Who does his best And leaves the rest, Then - do not worry.
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I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.
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It's not always going to be smooth sailing or everyone will do it. If you have something people want, it should be the perfect recipe for success.
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The physical body is not only a temple for our soul, but the means by which we embark on the inward journey toward the core.
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I think actors like to be directed. Actors like to know where they're headed and what they want, so I'm very encouraging.
