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David Rakoff Quotes

I was going to say that writing is about disclosure and acting is about obfuscation, but that's such a little lie. Both of them are about obfuscation and masking oneself.

David Rakoff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: canadian
Birth: November 27, 1964 - August 9, 2012

Topics

Lie Writing Acting Say Little Going

Cubans have no bar to being legalized once they are in America. All other Hispanics - with the exception of Puerto Ricans - have to go through a broken, dysfunctional process. One group is American from day one. And all the rest are trying to be.

Joe Garcia

Day Broken Rest American America Go

Acting, for me, has never been about wanting attention or wanting to be seen. It's funny that I'm in a profession where that's where I am. There's so much I want to express; it's about connecting with another person and the intimacy of what that is, and so I have to overcome my shyness.

Jessica Chastain

Funny I Am Me Attention Acting Want

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.

Jessica Lange

Love Yourself Story Acting Personal

War is a blessing compared with national degradation.

Andrew Jackson

Blessing War Degradation National

Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.

Jean Vanier

Community People Mystery Move Begins

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.

Stephen Greenblatt

Father Story Long Line Tell Punch

Which one of the three candidates would you want your daughter to marry?

Ross Perot

Daughter You Three Want Would Your

I did game shows, I did interview shows, I did talk shows, I did commercials, I did acting. But all of that was a million years ago.

Mike Wallace

Game Acting Talk Interview Years

In a ghost story, usually you've got to hang on until daylight, and you'll be alright. But if daylight's four months away, then you have a problem.

Michelle Paver

Story Problem You Hang Ghost Four

I'm not really keen on comebacks. Eurythmics was an incredible thing. When I look back on that work, I feel very satisfied with it.

Annie Lennox

Work Feel Look Back Satisfied Very

Years ago, I tore out a Nike ad featuring Allyson Felix and Maria Sharapova looking super fierce and tough. I always told my family that I wanted to be like them someday, so to come home to my apartment and see boxes of Nike gear stacked higher than my doorknob is pretty much a dream come true.

Ashley Wagner

Family Home Looking Tough Fierce

Working on a film is different from working in an office. You spend 16-hour days together; you share stories and become really close. But, when you finish shooting, you don't see each other again.

Shenaz Treasury

Together You Become Office See Days