David Lubar Quotes
Part of the writer's task is to recognize what he's done, then dive back in and make the connections clearer. I'm a strong believer in getting things right the ninth or tenth time.
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I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.
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I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.
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When Bob Wilson left the BBC for ITV, I got the 'Football Focus' job, and it went from there. It came completely out of the blue, but the fact I had a high profile certainly helped.
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If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
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Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's currently in fashion. That would be dishonest. But, at the same time, I'm different and the music reflects that to some degree.
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I think I passed up a lot of opportunities for love because I was too interested in identity politics.
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Knowing that anything can happen at any time, I made sure the people that I love know that.
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I like 'Shameless.' The first season I just watched it straight through. I literally didn't get up. I just had to finish it.
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My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.
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It becomes very tempting to ask whether, in principle, it's possible to create a universe in the laboratory-or a universe in your backyard-by man-made processes.
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The Futurists were an art movement in the early 20th century which basically glorified machines and the Industrial Revolution.
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Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.
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Comedy and horror are cousins; they're related. They both come from storytellers who want to specifically affect the audience and elicit specific reactions during the movie.
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I've never looked at my career as something that I was striving to get to one position or another. For me, it was one step at a time.
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We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions.
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I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal.
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I love music, and I love acting, so if I can just live and be able to do those two things, I can be happy, you know?
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Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well.
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Most of us, I think, are conscious of history swirling around outside the door, but when we're in the house, we're usually not dealing with history. We're not thinking about history.
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As an early child, I tried to play every kind of music that I heard. I thought everyone was doing that.
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The race cannot succeed, nor build strong citizens, until we have a race of women competent to do more than bear a brood of negative men.
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Part of the writer's task is to recognize what he's done, then dive back in and make the connections clearer. I'm a strong believer in getting things right the ninth or tenth time.
