David Chase Quotes

I think that the difference between 'The Sopranos' and the shows that came before it was that it was really personal. There had been a lot of dramas, a lot of really good ones, a lot of really bad ones, but they were always franchise shows about cops, or doctors, or lawyers. They weren't about the writer himself.

David Chase

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 22, 1945

Topics

GoodThinkLawyersBadPersonal

So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game.

Jeremy Irons

GamePartnerThinkBetterYouLike

One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world.

Meghan O'Rourke

MotherHomeDeathWorldYearAnchor

While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made.

John L. Lewis

MenProgressLaborSteelBlood

Most actors will tell you this - I don't really know how to connect, empathize with, or make worthy of any revelation a character that doesn't have love in there somewhere, that doesn't have an idealism or an empathy in there somewhere.

Jeff Perry

LoveCharacterEmpathyYouKnow

I gravitate toward the team thing. I'm not a golfer - I much prefer basketball.

Michael Eisner

TeamBasketballMuchThingGolfer

My main trick is to work with amazing people. It's a long and twisty journey, and you need people that really are amazing and have this rare gift of honesty and courage and really open up.

Lucy Walker

WorkJourneyHonestyCouragePeople

I've tried everything but celibacy, and I really want to know what it feels like to be touched by someone with a mental touch and not a physical touch.

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

SomeoneKnowWantTouchEverything

The perfect pop song is a 20th-century creation; it's not a sonnet, it's not an opera, it's something short - three and a half minutes by nature - and has this ability to travel and to defy class and economic structures.

Doug Aitken

NatureTravelSongShortPerfect

I was never a child actor. I was a child performer.

Christopher Walken

ChildActorNeverPerformer

I have a stunt double. His name is Glen Levy, and he has the hardest punch in the world. Seriously - it's actually been recorded by National Geographic. He calls it the Hammer Fist. And he's my stunt double! He makes me look awesome.

Craig Horner

MeWorldNameLookSeriouslyHammer

Children should be taught in school that you should have all kinds of asset classes in your portfolio. They should be taught what those asset classes are, and their advantages and disadvantages.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

ChildrenSchoolYouPortfolioAsset

It's not weird to look at yourself in the mirror at the gym - that's why they're there! You have to make sure that you're doing things right.

Alison Sweeney

MirrorYourselfWeirdDoingLook

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