Deborah Kaplan Quotes
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
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I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.
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I would've been a really big silent movie star.
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I've found all of my apartments on Craigslist. I've got good Craigslist luck. I just sit on my couch and really focus on it, and I've gotten really lucky that way.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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I support this war on terror and the war on radical Islam.
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Even such is time, that takes in trustOur youth, our joys, our all we have,And pays us but with age and dust;Who in the dark and silent grave,When we have wandered all our ways,Shuts up the story of our days.But from this earth, this grave, this dust,My God shall raise me up, I trust!
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I was at the job of reading it for days and days, endlessly daunted and halted by its laborious dullness, its flatulent fatuity, its almost fabulous inconsequentiality. (On H. G. Wells' Joan and Peter) Ch. 2, 'The Late Mr. Wells'
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Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.
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People have always asked me, 'Haven't you wanted to sell out?', and it's like, who am I going to sell to?
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Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.
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I wasn't being followed around by paparazzi all the time. I was able to be a kid and spend that time with my family and not grow up too quickly.
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A lot of times you can lose the MP3s - it's a lot of labor to be finding it again, putting things back up. You gotta back up, back up, back up.
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I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal.
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I like my small camper. I just do not want to return to a fixed home. I cannot stand being in one place. I must keep moving.
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ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders.
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For me, as a writer, I desperately want to be read. I'm very conscious of readers as I'm writing. I think, 'If you write for yourself, then why don't you just keep it under the bed,' so I definitely write for other people.
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Bolivia is not yet a country of equals.
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In terms of foods for me, I think I have more of the usual associations - foods from childhood that I associate with care and love, from relatives or special restaurants like the kind elderly man who dusted seasoning salt on French fries at the corner burger joint.
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Stay humble to the craft and never forget how much it actually takes to be the main character of a documentary.
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We both wuth Harry Elfont had those sort of misfit childhoods.
