Dani Shapiro Quotes

I'm a full-time writer, which means I have the entire day to get my work done. But that can also be bad, because that means I have the entire day to get in my way.

Dani Shapiro

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 10, 1962

Topics

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Curation is everything.

Jimmy Iovine

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In the 20s, you were a face. And that was enough. In the 30s, you also had to be a voice. And your voice had to match your face, if you can imagine that.

Joan Blondell

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At the most base level, what an actor represents to the film industry is an investment. Depending on the risk profile, an investor needs 1,000 reasons to commit and one reason not to. That means you've got to do more work on your own, and that the machine is not going to necessarily do the blocking for you. The machine rarely accepted my code.

Jeffrey Wright

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My childhood was completely dominated by Bill Clinton and the OJ trial. I don't think we had a family dinner where one didn't come up.

John Mulaney

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And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.

Robert Klein

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Love isn't a switch you can turn on and off. You just can't get rid of it, regardless of the circumstances, if you truly love someone.

Matt Hardy

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Characters can become boring. That's what's tricky about television. It goes on and on - you're playing this same character for five seasons and it gets easy to fall into just walking on the set and assuming you know how to play a scene.

John Slattery

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So you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna do something really outrageous, I'm gonna tell the truth.

John Travolta

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The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way to forms behind which real human values lie.

Alvar Aalto

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My worst and best qualities are rashness: the good part of it is due to youth, which is, of course, why I'm not a great conductor.

Simon Rattle

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You can't teach somebody how to be a good writer.

Robert Ben Garant

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Some memories are unforgettable, remaining ever vivid and heartwarming!

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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