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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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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The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
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America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.
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God is dead but my hair is perfect.
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As a woman, I feel it's important to support causes that are important to my core customer, who is also a woman, as well as causes that resonate with me personally.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
