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Listen, here's the thing about...

Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they admire over the last hundred years, see how many of them got a degree in English.

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Mixed martial arts was invente...

Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good.

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The Founders recognized that G...

The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.

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The individual is not only bes...

The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so: and his right to do so is guaranteed by the Constitution.

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The main question in drama, th...

The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down to that. It's not about theme, it's not about ideas, it's not about setting, but what the protagonist wants.

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The so-called assault weapons ...

The so-called assault weapons ban is a hoax. It is a political appeal to the ignorant. The guns it supposedly banned have been illegal for 78 years. Did the ban make them 'more' illegal? The ban addresses only the appearance of weapons, not their operation.

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They say you can't study Kabba...

They say you can't study Kabbalah until you are at least 40 years old. You know why? You have to have experienced at least one generation making the same mistakes as the previous one.

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Anyone ever lost in the wild k...

Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead.

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At the Neighborhood Playhouse ...

At the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre, Sanford Meisner said, 'When you go into the professional world, at a stock theatre somewhere, backstage, you will meet an older actor, someone who has been around awhile. He will tell you tales and anecdotes, about life in the theatre. He will speak to you about your performance and the performances of others, and he will generalize to you, based on his experience and his intuitions, about the laws of the stage. Ignore this man!'

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When we fear things I think th...

When we fear things I think that we wish for them ... every fear hides a wish

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Fun is what you do for yoursel...

Fun is what you do for yourself. If somebody else does it, it's entertainment.

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You know, I once read an inter...

You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. 'What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?' And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives. Thinking.

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We're all put to the test... b...

We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?

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We must have a pie. Stress can...

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.

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Every reiteration of the idea ...

Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit. Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama in modern life, there is only dramatization, that there is no tragedy, there is only unexplained misfortune, debases us. It denies what we know to be true. In denying what we know, we are as a nation which cannot remember its dreams--like an unhappy person who cannot remember his dreams and so denies that he does dream, and denies that there are such things as dreams.

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We all die in the end, but the...

We all die in the end, but there's no reason to die in the middle.

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If you find that a point canno...

If you find that a point cannot be made without narration, it is virtually certain that the point is unimportant to the story (which is to say, to the audience).

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I don't have any experience wi...

I don't have any experience with film schools. I suspect that they're useless, because I've had experience with drama schools, and have found them to be useless.

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Almost all movie scripts conta...

Almost all movie scripts contain material that cannot be filmed.

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It is the objective of the pro...

It is the objective of the protagonist that keeps us in our seats.

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