Dani Shapiro Quotes
I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.
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French fries. I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar.
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Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a premiere, it's good to have a makeup artist because they know what they're doing.
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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
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The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system.
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If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
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I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
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I write a lot of my music, but not all of it. I have always subscribed to the 'best song wins' theory when making an album.
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I sort of feel sorry for the next man who gets me. I may just kill him with passion. He'd better be strong and have a good heart!
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I'm not a religious person. Chances are that the universe neither treasures nor regrets us.
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The heart set to do the Father's will need never fear defeat. His promises of guidance may be fully counted upon. Does it make sense to believe that the Shepherd would care less about getting His sheep where He wants them to go than they care about getting there?
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
