David Shore Quotes
It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for... What they're willing to lie for.
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I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
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As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.
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Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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The type of renovation I do most often is opening a kitchen to the family room.
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I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
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Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
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Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.
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I've always wanted to be a very commercial director, or I had dreams of making these movies into blockbusters. And with each movie, they tell me it's not that way.
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That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.
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I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?
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I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
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Managing to tell a story is very gratifying.
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I hate when a movie just sort of ends and is so open-ended you feel like it wasn't finished. I appreciate leaving things up to the interpretation of the audience and letting them make decisions about where things will go in the future - but the director has to make a decision; otherwise it is sort of a cop-out.
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I kind of feel, in a way, all of us will forever be asking those questions of ourselves: Who am I and how do I fit in in the world and what is all this about? Because those aren't really... there are no answers to those questions, in a sense.
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Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.
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I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.
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I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you?
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Dressing rooms can be vicious places, in the best possible way, from a slagging point of view.
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Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.
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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for... What they're willing to lie for.
