David Rakoff Quotes

'Play It Again Sam's opening shot is the same as 'Purple Rose's final one: a close-up of a face, rapt in a movie house. I've certainly felt that in my life. I've been known to cry watching Gene Kelly.

David Rakoff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeRoseFaceMy LifeHousePlay

If you've got a shot at having some 30 million people give you thumbs up or thumbs down every week, you take it.

Joe Penny

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I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare.

John Crowley

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My real name is Alfonso. My grandfather and dad are also Alfonso, so I was the third. So my mom just gave me the nickname Trey because I was the third.

Trey Burke

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In a hockey fight, barring the occasional brawl, there's actually some etiquette that goes into it. Honor, too, absolutely. Most of those guys that do it, that's their job, and they follow a certain code of conduct in doing it.

Tom Glavine

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At school, I was always daydreaming and fiddling in inkwells, but I had to learn to grow up and become articulate. And doing that was what brought me into writing songs. It's like therapy for me, because it exposes what I'm really thinking.

Roy Harper

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I think it's fun playing a part that lots of other people have played, in a way.

Rupert Everett

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Who didn't grow up through the '90s watching 'Friends?'

Josh Hopkins

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I wasn't a kid who won every tournament I was playing, and I think that helped me - it motivated me a lot to know what it felt like not to win.

Denis Shapovalov

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I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.

Christopher Eccleston

KnowWhereComeWhoExactlyMum

I love the big, like, basketball sweats... and I only wear vintage T-shirts to bed, because I like the super-thin ones.

Brad Goreski

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If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.

Arabella Weir

PowerPeopleHelpYouDutyOut

What they can expect always is that they're going to be made to think.

Peter Maxwell Davies

ThinkAlwaysExpectGoingMade

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