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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You put anyone in the outfit, and they look like Gandalf. Not that clever.
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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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These four, however, seek the freedom of their will at the very point where they are most securely chained. It is as if the silkworm sought freedom of will in spinning. What is the reason?
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Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.
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When we did Dynasty, it was the clothes. I think the clothes affected every woman around the world. I got so many letters, I think we made the designer a millionaire!
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The one thing that's terrible about traveling for fun is writing about it.
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Say someone tells me their name - that name can turn into a taste or a color and that's how I categorize it in my mind. It's an easy way of categorizing things.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
