Danny Nucci Quotes
I've always found a cornucopia of roles open to me. Wait--did I just say cornucopia? I think I meant plethora.
Quotes to Explore
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Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous.
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The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
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Opera is the most complete art form. It includes drama, acting, technology (lighting), art (the sets), dance, and the epitome of the human voices. But mostly, go for the glorious music. The arts are crucial to the life of every community.
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Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system. The studios insisted that only stars could make movies successful.
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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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At the beginning of a new project, often before I do any actual writing, I collect photos, quotes, song lyrics, and even objects that relate to the characters or the world I'm creating.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand.
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
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Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.
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Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
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I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here.
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Second-generation Muslims who have lived all their lives in Europe are turning up among the suicide bombers and terrorists.
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I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.
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The writer is all alone.
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Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!
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There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
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The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.
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I've always boxed, I always taught boxing.
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Nothing shows lack of conscience better than bold-faced lying.
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I've always found a cornucopia of roles open to me. Wait--did I just say cornucopia? I think I meant plethora.
