Dave LaPoint Quotes
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If Clark Gable had a Facebook page, there would have been a 'Gone with the Wind 2.'
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I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute.
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There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.
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I got irritated with people asking us the same questions. Like, 'Are you a real band?' Journalists wanted to slay us, tried to cut us down, and I just started caring less and less about doing interviews. With Facebook and Instagram, you kind of don't need to anyway. But now and again, we'll do something when there's new information to share.
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I'm a religious broadcaster.
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With 'Attachments,' my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.
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I'm a huge Robert Altman fan and don't take issue with his filmmaking, as eccentric as it is. But I just think 'Nashville' was a world he didn't know.
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You have accounted yourselves happy on being environed with a great ditch from all the world beside.
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Far too many of our elected officials are chained to an ideology that is rooted in the past. They are keepers of normalcy who embrace things as they've always been.
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I definitely have a dark side of me that can be pretty vicious... as we all do.
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I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they'll do wonders. I count on them.
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I've been offered a few professional contracts... in the hundreds and thousands.
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No, it's interesting to remake a film for the contemporary audience today. I think it's a good idea; it needs to respect the original idea. Don't just take the title and change everything else.
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I always say, I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of it. But you don't hear the Cormac McCarthy fans, like, up in arms about it. They should be. It's like an amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning book.
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I am old enough to remember every Red Sox season since 1975. Baseball is long. Baseball takes forever. It's day in, day out, for six solid months - seven if you're lucky. Winning is always fun.
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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I don't know how anyone can put on a uniform and not care about winning.
