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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
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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'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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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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Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.
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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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My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.
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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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Thoughtful education programs and access to effective forms of contraception are key to preventing unplanned pregnancy.
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In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.
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A lot of people in my world - in the acting world - have either lost friends to Aids or live with HIV because its origin in our culture, in New York for instance, was in the gay community.
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The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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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.
