Dave Mordal Quotes
Workaholicism is such a tough addiction to get over. I had to my wife because she was an enabler.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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My original project was called 'The Wheel'; there's a record out there called 'Desire & The Dissolving Man,' 'The Memory Of Loss' as well. There's also 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run,' also 'Closer'; all of that's on our website.
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You have to know the forces that are against you and that are trying to break you down. We talk about the problems facing the black community: the decimation of the black family; the mass incarceration of the black man; we're talking about the brutality against black people from the police. The educational system.
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If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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Once I'm working on something, I don't do anything else. I'm mono-track.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light. The question came about as a result of a five dollar bet over highballs, and it happened this way…
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Parlette spoke slowly and evenly. 'I am trying to prevent a bloodbath. Is that clear enough for you? I'm trying to prevent a civil war that could kill half the people in this world.'
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A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic - not that it advocates democracy but that by nature it is so.
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I didn't just grow up with horses; I wanted to be one.
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What I realized on the 'Grasshopper' was that I wasn't sure that I liked being in every shot. It wasn't fun.
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Let's be cautious about relying so much on material things that we have no energy left for the spiritual aspects of our lives.
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A potentially useful property of forecasts based on cointegration is that when extended some way ahead, the forecasts of the two series will form a constant ratio, as is expected by some asymptotic economic theory.
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I think that there's something really powerful about the sun and its effect on the human psyche. I lived in a place with no windows for twelve years.
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I was just born involved in politics. My family is conservative Mormon, and so I was born - although the Mormon faith is not inherently political, their faith requires some political stands, and those are ones that I happen to disagree with vehemently - so I was just political from a very early age.
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'Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.
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To arrive and try to fight for the Champions League, to try to fight to be the best in the world, you need time.
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Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It's such an output and exchange of energy. You can't do that anywhere else.
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I drive from home to my office, a small apartment on the river in the center of Dublin. I write there from 9 a.m. to lunchtime, I take a simple lunch-bread, cheese, nice cup of tea-work until 6 p.m., then home for dinner. Viewed from outside my head it is a singularly dull and uneventful day, but inside my head … aaah.
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I have a luck cat in my arms, it spins threads of luck. Luck cat, luck cat, make for me three things: make for me a golden ring, to tell me that I am lucky; make for me a mirror to tell me that I am beautiful; make for me a fan to waft away my cumbersome thoughts. Luck cat, luck cat, spin for me some news of my future!
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It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.
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Workaholicism is such a tough addiction to get over. I had to my wife because she was an enabler.
