David L. Felten Quotes
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.
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My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
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My family are my friends.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.
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I actually shoot. I enjoy target practice. I find it really zen. You focus on nothing but the target. You have to control your breathing. It's all part of my years in the military, where I was taught to become a marksman but also to respect my weapon.
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To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.
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The 'Family Ties' role was the first of many gay roles that I've ended up playing. I remember that I made them laugh, and it made me feel good, 'cause it really cracked them up.
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Aaliyah was one of my favourite artists.
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When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.
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It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America.
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I'm not sexist in any way - sexism is another form of violence, and there are many great men in this world.
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The world's deadliest poison, can be your own thoughts.
