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" 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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" I think it's disrespectful to go onto a set without some clear idea of what your intentions are, because then you're hanging the director out to dry. "

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You

Director

" I am an instrument of purposes that I don't fully understand. "

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I Am

Instrument

" What part of 9/11 is big? If the future continues to reinterpret the past, it could be argued that 9/11 provides irrefutable proof that unless there is some other way that we learn to deal with our technology or deal with our brothers and sisters, it is goodbye as a species. That genie does not leave that bottle. "

" The paradox is that money never meant anything to me. And it still doesn't, except now as an occasion for regret in that there are things that I want to make sure my family is protected when I pass. "

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Now

Money

" Time will tell whether I am a wing nut or a megalomaniac. The difference between a cult and faith is time. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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Truth

Truth Is

" Even having all the time in the world, it's better to collaborate with your brothers and sisters. It's ultimately the richest experience. "

" 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. "

David Milch

Long

Run

" 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. "

David Milch

Used

Race

" Learning to live with the given is the great humbling educational process of life. "

" In college, I started to get soaked in the materials. Subsequently, I worked with R.W.B. Lewis, Robert Penn Warren, and Cleanth Brooks on a history of American literature - I did that for seven or eight years. In the course of that work, my interest in Faulkner deepened and has been sustained ever since. "

" I've been beaten. I know what that's like. They say, 'Who has been a nail can learn to be a hammer.' So I know what it is to beat people. "

David Milch

Learn

Know

" 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. "

" When someone is good at what he does but is a nonconformist, there is a temptation in horse racing, like in all kinds of other areas of human endeavor, to dismiss him for his nonconformity rather than to recognize him for his excellence. "

" Showbiz and churches are the same thing. You never saw 'The Wizard of Oz?' "

" 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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Rome

Time

" Faulkner wrote for film, and his ear is just impeccable. "

" You want to harbor your resources and try not to make a mistake. "

" It's kind of an intuitive process. I wish that it were more systematic, but it just isn't. "

David Milch

Wish

Kind

" Ego suppression can be an act of ostentation. "

" That's the definition of love, that going out in spirit to a separate and other soul and being received similarly. "

" Apes beat their chests so they don't have to fight 24 hours a day. "

" I have several different masks that I wear. "

" Every man's entitled to hope. "

" The idea of the western, I believe, as people conceive of it, is really an artifact of the Hays Production Code of the '20s and '30s, and it has really nothing to do with the West and much to do with the influence of middle-European Jews who had come out to Hollywood to present to America a sanitized heroic idea of what America was. "

" It may be, for one reason or another, if I'm not able to work, that would be a cause for distress. But I'm still pitching. Thank God, I'm still in possession of my gift. And I have the love of my family. "

" 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. "