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" Every man's entitled to hope. "
David Milch
Entitled
Every
Hope
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" Ego suppression can be an act of ostentation. "
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" To think in terms of what the effect of a story is going to be, as opposed to trying to discover its inner logic, is one of the fundamental dangers in the process. "
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" The truth is I try to show up each day available to do the work that God or whatever it is that's making, you know, the solar system work wants me to do. And I expect when he wants me to stop, I'll be the first to find out. "
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" I had proposed to HBO a series about the city cops in Rome at the time of Nero. What had interested me was the idea of order without law. The Praetorian Guard, who were the emperor's guards, understood how they were to proceed. But for the city cops, who were called the Urban Cohorts, there was no law at all. "
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" As a writer, I don't have a sense of my own position. I try to disappear and not to think of myself at all when I'm working. "
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" I remember when I was reading 'The Bear,' I was reading as a kid. All these years later, one returns to that for an entirely different reason. "
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" Someone asked me, 'How long do you intend to do 'Deadwood'?' And part of my sociopathology, I say, 'Well, when does my contract run out?' And I realize my contract ran out at the end of four seasons. "
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Me
Long
Run
" Even having all the time in the world, it's better to collaborate with your brothers and sisters. It's ultimately the richest experience. "
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Time
Experience
Better
" Faulkner speaks to us on the questions of race, the challenges of modernity, and modern man's dilemma in all of its aspects. That he is able to specify among those and bring those themes alive is one of his great gifts. There are so many different kinds of pleasures one gets from encountering those materials. "
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Race
Great
Man
" There is not an amount of money that a writer can earn that I can't blow. "
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Earn
Writer
Amount
" My relationship with the track was, I would say, at least fractionally as complicated as my relationship with my old man. So it kept me coming back. "
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Old Man
Man
Me
" I try to do the story the way I feel the story should be done, and how that folds into whatever larger sorts of categories or questions is really none of my business. "
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Done
Business
Feel
" I'm no rose. I have been around a while, and you never know when something is going to be the last thing you do. "
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Know
Rose
You
" I have several different masks that I wear. "
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Masks
Wear
Several
" When I was a kid, my dad used to take me out to the race track, and so many formative experiences have to do with associations like that. "
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Me
Used
Race
" It's kind of an intuitive process. I wish that it were more systematic, but it just isn't. "
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Wish
More
Kind
" In any operation, what you have to do is to persuade the patient to grant access to the patient's energy. The purest form of that is when you're trying to help a woman through labor: when you're saying, 'Push, push!' and you're rhythmically with the woman. "
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Trying
Woman
Help
" Showbiz and churches are the same thing. You never saw 'The Wizard of Oz?' "
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Never
Same Thing
Wizard
" My process is very disempowering to the director anyway, so it's essential that you be respectful. Once we've sort of found the scene, I have to get out of there, because you don't want to split the actor's idea of who's in charge. "
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" For a long time, I felt that was actually the best I could ever hope for - to pretend to be a good person - because I was quite the opposite. "
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Good
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" That's the definition of love, that going out in spirit to a separate and other soul and being received similarly. "
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Spirit
Going
" I had the erroneous conviction that all of history tended toward my birth and would diminish into chaos or inconsequence after I was gone. When you realize that's not so, the proper humility is to defer. "
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History
Humility
" Commercials were once TV's version of the church. Which is to say, you couldn't offend the sponsor; therefore, certain values had to be underscored in the subject matter. "
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Values
You
Offend
" What constitutes - where are we when we sleep? What is our sense of reality at that moment? It's, you know, science now suggests to us that what has been perceived as matter for a long time is, in fact, energy. "
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Time
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" I'm not saying I'm wealthy. The best thing that ever happened to me in that context was turning everything over to Rita. And the business people. I am on a leash. That's not the end of the world. "
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End
I Am
Best
" When I was working on 'Deadwood', it was understood that the script was a work in progress, and when we got to set, everyone would kind of work on it together. "
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Together
Working
Work
" Time will tell whether I am a wing nut or a megalomaniac. The difference between a cult and faith is time. "
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I Am
Time
Tell
" So much of what we do is shame-based, and when you're teaching, you have the opportunity to answer to the best parts of your nature, so I'm always grateful for that chance. "
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Nature
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Opportunity
" A syndicate is a group that has gotten together to pool their money so they can cover more contingencies. If I come to track with, say, $200, and I join a syndicate of 20 people, each of whom can bet $200, we can spread our bets, and that gives us a better chance of winning. "
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