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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The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.
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There are things that people say that hurt my feelings or whatever, especially with social media right now. It can be the most amazing thing, and it can also be the most negative and detrimental thing.
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If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again.
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Any life is lived in a particular time and place. Every life is impacted by the family's socio-economic circumstances, and, in later life, by the person's.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
