David Batstone Quotes
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My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.
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When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.
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I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
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I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
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The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.
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While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope.
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I'm not averse to telling people off.
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No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.
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American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.
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In terms of script, Bollywood should learn from South Indian scripts. Not talking about the fights and action, I am talking about the drama bit.
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We've carried that over into the visual development as well. We've designed quite an exotic cast of characters, but the last thing we want is to dictate to the players how their PCs should look. What we want to do is inspire.
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I always love China, especially the old China.
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The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry.
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If I'd gone into taekwondo, I'd probably have won several Olympic medals.
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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.
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Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny.
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All we have is the past, but for people of the future, there's not even going to be a history there. The history of recorded music has turned into a flat fucking screen of an iTunes playlist. I'm preserving something that's going extinct! That's all rock'n'roll has been since day one. It's all necrophilia.
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Life is simply too short to think about everything you put in your mouth, and it's not good for children to see you picking over bits of salad.
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To save your own hair, wigs are literally the way forward.
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One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you.
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I get my fuel and inspiration from children, they are our future.
