David Lindsay-Abaire Quotes

Having deadlines helps because people are constantly breathing down my neck, and tapping their toes waiting for pages. So I just have to work nine to five. If I didn't have deadlines then I might be more of a golden hour kind of guy, writing from eight to noon and calling it a day, but that's just not the way I work right now.

David Lindsay-Abaire

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We have to go back to the memories of 9-11. If that memory doesn't do anything to you as an American, then you're not really that sensitive a human being.

Jim Brown

MemoriesMemoryAmericanYouBack

You have enough people against you... be for yourself.

Joel Osteen

YourselfPeopleEnoughYouAgainst

I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had.

Andrew Sarris

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Whenever I'm on my way to a premiere or something, I always have a good laugh in the car... because it's all so absurd - I'm one generation removed from starvation.

John Cho

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The most important thing for Quentin and the most important thing for me is to make the best film possible.

Robert Richardson

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You should remember that I started as a fanboy many years ago; I saw 'A New Hope' more than twenty times in the theater. I saw 'The Empire Strikes Back' nearly thirty times.

Matthew Stover

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Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

John Philip Sousa

GoodMusicPeopleBadAboveOnly

I'd love to be the first one to say this, but it automatically turns into - we all have those responsibilities that we ignore because we don't feel like they're ours.

Rosario Dawson

LoveFeelIgnoreSayFirstBecause

Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer.

Alice Walker

PeopleSome PeopleDancersWriter

It is up to the people and boxing fans to give me the respect I deserve once I have finished my career. I personally do not think about my legacy.

Wladimir Klitschko

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You cannot be from Atlanta and not know who Gucci Mane is, period.

Playboi Carti

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You know I've never worked without a script before, but with Apatow, it's all improvisation. He calls out a premise, and you have to adapt.

Norman Lloyd

YouKnowAdaptNeverWithoutOut

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