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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Fictional comedy tells us that the writer is remarkable. Factual comedy tells us that the world is remarkable. I suppose I prefer to live in a remarkable world.
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A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.
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Technology is an inherent democratizer. Because of the evolution of hardware and software, you’re able to scale up almost anything. It means that in our lifetime everyone may have tools of equal power.
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You don't have to believe everything you think.
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Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.
