David Auburn Quotes
Spending time with math people is a lot of fun. As a result of the play, I've had semi-drunken dinners with mathematicians all over the country. I recommend the experience.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.
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We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
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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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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
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My memories of events and games are fragmented.
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America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.
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I think plays have nothing to do with one's own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret - that's what drama is about!
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Once you get into a feature, whether it's a sequel or an original one, you have to start all over again, and you're creating a world, creating new characters. You're also tracking emotions. You're trying to create emotion and create a character that you can fall in love with for two hours.
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Whatever I feel comfortable in is usually what I'll wear. I go to different events and premieres and walk the red carpet... those things are awkward enough on their own. You don't want to be pulling up a top all night. I will sacrifice foot comfort though. I love high heels.
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I'm a huge fan of good, procedural-type shows on television... there are a lot of roles for women. But there aren't a lot of great network television roles for girls that will let you start a character in one place and finish up with her in a totally different one.
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At the Big Bad Lab, we build participatory art and media platforms for causes, communities and organizations we care about.
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The course of Nature is the art of God.
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I was talking to a woman last night. I said, 'I’m not like other people.' She started to giggle. Then I raised my voice and said evenly, 'That’s one blessing God gave writers - they’re not like other people!'
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The people I've known I must say are extraordinary. When I think about some of them, I can't believe that I knew them all. And I think the reason I knew most of them at the beginning was because they were of Bogie's generation, 25 years my senior, not mine. But they were the most talented people of all.
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There are 7 billion people in the world, but there's only one heavyweight champion of the world, and that's me.
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Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.
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To tell about a drunken muzhik's beating his wife is incomparably harder than to compose a whole tract about the 'woman question.'
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Spending time with math people is a lot of fun. As a result of the play, I've had semi-drunken dinners with mathematicians all over the country. I recommend the experience.
