Dan Futterman Quotes

We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.

Dan Futterman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 8, 1967

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It's better to do your purpose imperfectly than to do someone else's purpose perfectly.

Jidenna

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Soon I learned that the worse the puns and jokes, the funnier they could be, if you knew how to deliver them.

John Lasseter

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I have the kind of life where I can take my kids on trips with me. I can involve them in my work. I've always avoided politics because I didn't want to make commitments that would take me away from raising these children.

Robert Kennedy, Jr.

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I want everybody in the news business to think of ABC before they go any place else. If it costs us an extra few thousand dollars to do that, what does it mean?

Roone Arledge

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I DJ and I'm a harsh critic of DJs.

Russell Peters

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Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born.

Mary Oliver

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I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.

Mickey Spillane

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To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.

Michael Sandel

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Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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People are surprised by the poverty and think that I wasn't cared for. But that wasn't the case - I was deeply loved.

Liz Murray

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I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

Jonathan Lethem

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Eminem is just incredible. That's the word that comes to mind: 'incredible.'

Dr. Dre

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