Daniel Finkelstein Quotes
You may wonder why a question of manners has got me so exercised. It's because I believe in a simple rule. If you see a person you know behave unreasonably to someone else, you can bet your last pound that before long he'll be behaving like that to you. Life Believe Simple Long Advice
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
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I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
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I have to have a cheat day. I know when I'm being good all week long that come Sunday, I'm going to lie by the pool, have a drink, and eat some pizza.
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The good parts about being a public company are increased discipline, increased execution and increased transparency to make sure that you are really building a company for a hundred years.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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I just want to be a little more real. Maybe I'm a little bit darker than others.
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I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.
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I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.
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Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
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When I was just starting out, I had two choices: I could be the beautiful girl on the main man's arm as decoration, or I would have to do a little independent movie to get any depth in the female character.
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Heroes can be sweet.
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I don't go online, I don't read reviews, I try not to look at anything on the Internet.
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Hopefully with digital projection, a film will always look the way the filmmaker intended.
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I want to age with some dignity.
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I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don't like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough.
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Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead.
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I really wanted to make a dungeon crawler, but this game came out, 'Legend of Grimrock 2,' which was, like, the perfect dungeon crawler. It basically destroyed the genre for me, and no way could I make a game that good in that genre.
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You may wonder why a question of manners has got me so exercised. It's because I believe in a simple rule. If you see a person you know behave unreasonably to someone else, you can bet your last pound that before long he'll be behaving like that to you. Life Believe Simple Long Advice
