D. B. Weiss Quotes
There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and getting 'bothered' is just part of the deal. It's not a bother to me at all. That's part of being an actor and that's something you have to realize before you ever get into this business.
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
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You either are or you're not.
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I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.
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There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.
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I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.
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You don't dream about things that are impossible; that are out of your range.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.
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Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
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In the old days, money controlled politics. Today, information controls politics. So I think with the advent of the Internet, the power of wealth has been diminished. Look up all the people you know who spent millions and millions of dollars and fell short.
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For me, the question was, how can one take a live-action performance and put it in the parameter of one of those cartoons? How much can you get away with?
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Derek Bok's most recent book, Our Underachieving Colleges, is worth scrutinizing. . . . Bok is . . . on solid ground in pointing out that our colleges underachieve in preparing students for citizenship.
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The Junction Point journey is over. To all those who've asked, or want to ask, I'm sad but excited for the future.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
