David Blatt Quotes
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The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.
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I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.
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When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
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There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'
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I just like music that I can relate to, something to listen to in my car.
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The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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The real bombs are my books, not me.
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On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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I went to the premier of 'Stardust,' which starred Michelle Pfeiffer. I nearly died when I saw her on the red carpet – she's so beautiful.
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My father had no influence on my political beliefs, and to imply otherwise is wrong and irresponsible.
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For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.
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I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
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The strong desire to include every vital component of life instead of excluding part of them for the sake of too narrow and dogmatic an approach has characterized my whole life.
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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
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They didn’t tell me I was going into space until after they locked the shuttle doors and started counting down.
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Winning my first UFC fight by a finish, I've never felt so accomplished in my life.
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I think cyber security, cyber warfare will be one of the biggest challenges facing the next president, because clearly we're facing at this point two different kinds of adversaries. There are the independent hacking groups that do it mostly for commercial reasons to try to steal information that they can use to make money.
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We just don't give in. If you can bend and not break, you always got a chance.
