David Greenberg Quotes
An old-timer is someone who can remember when a naughty child was taken to the woodshed instead of to a psychiatrist.
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I remember the first time my mind was blown by an actor was Tim Curry, because I loved 'Clue' when I was a kid, and then I was watching the movie 'Legend,' and the Devil suddenly smiles, and I was like, 'It's the same guy!' It was a total Keyser Soeze moment.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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Do not deprive someone of his livelihood. This is a sinful tendency.
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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
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I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
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You paint what you know best; what you went through as a teenager and child. My world is the one I got to know in Medellin; I never paint anything else other than that.
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I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me. Everything was so urgent. I needed to say it immediately.
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Doing scripted acting is a challenge to me. I can't remember things too good, so remembering lines is a challenge to your boy.
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We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.
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If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
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Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can.
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Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
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What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a tragedy. All those pregnancy books you read when you are expecting refer to Down's syndrome as if it were the worst possible outcome, and it's not.
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What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
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My Safari bookmarks only sync intermittently across my Apple devices. Unlike Amazon's Kindle app for Apple products, the company's iBooks doesn't remember where I left off unless I set a bookmark.
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Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
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I was 11 or 12 years old when I first saw 'Reservoir Dogs.' I remember after I saw that film, I kept renting it from the video store because I wanted all of my friends to see it.
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It's cheesy, but having a pimple or a bad hair day isn't going to matter in five years. I don't always remember that, but I try.
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In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you're just talking about what you think about X, Y and Z. Unless you've got a twin brother who's also a stand-up.
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Our CII building in Hyderabad has zero discharge of water. Every drop of water is treated and reused.
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I don't think I'd ever reject anyone.
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I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It's not because I don't like it. I would love to know more. It's just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn't a mechanic.
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My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.
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An old-timer is someone who can remember when a naughty child was taken to the woodshed instead of to a psychiatrist.
