Washed Out Quotes
If a band or artist isn't tweeting or writing posts on Facebook every day, there can be this kind of mystique built about them, and I find myself retreating from the spotlight more and more.
Quotes to Explore
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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First and foremost, you have to remember that restaurants are businesses and they have to stay in business. And though everyone thinks they want grass fed beef, most people actually prefer the taste of corn fed - it is less dry, more marbled, and less gamey, not to mention much less expensive than grass fed.
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But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.
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I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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I'm competitive. I'd love another chance to be part of a Stanley Cup championship team. That'd be awesome.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.
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I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.
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Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.
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The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
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You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. You work at it, and you get better. It's like anything: You sit there and do it every day, and eventually you get good at it.
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Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative.
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Dehumanizing sounds so extreme, but when you're fighting for a football at the bottom of the pile, it is kind of dehumanizing.
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I am rather in favour of dealing with teenage hooliganism.
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In 1958, Anne and I returned to Australia, where I got a very attractive research position at the Australian National University in Canberra. But soon I felt very isolated because at that time game theory was virtually unknown in Australia.
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If a band or artist isn't tweeting or writing posts on Facebook every day, there can be this kind of mystique built about them, and I find myself retreating from the spotlight more and more.
