David Koepp Quotes
Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.
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I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.
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Sometimes we all work so hard to overcome various things, and we are very cruel as a society and tough on people who we think aren't trying hard enough.
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During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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I'm into song-writing; I'm into melodies that break your heart a little bit. That's the thing that got me into music; that's what I look for in music for the most part.
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I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.
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In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food - for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer.
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I am no theologian. I am a layman. I am among those who are preached to, and who listen. It is not for me to preach. I should not willingly forego being a listener, a man who reads the Gospels and then listens to what others say that our Lord meant. But sometimes a listener speaks out, and listens to his own voice.
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When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.
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And all the zig-zags and lines in my hair? I used to do that myself. I just thought it was cool that you could actually do that with your hair.
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It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.
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I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.
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February days are a marketing gimmick; love happens every day.
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I want to be a better person in every aspect. I really don't feel I've in anyway fulfilled my potential in every area of my life. But I'm optimistic.
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What's a priority is going out there and winning ballgames every week.
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Burning hearts are not nourished by empty heads.
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Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.
