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" It's hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115. "
David Duchovny
Page
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Hard
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" 'Duch' means spirit and 'ovny' is kind of the adjectival ending, so the word itself means spiritual. It's my father's name, obviously. He took the 'H' out because he was tired of people saying Duchovny, but he never did it legally. When my parents divorced, my mother, to my father, put the 'H' back in. "
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Father
Mother
" What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs. "
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Pretension
Makes
" I'll instinctively know that I identify with a character. "
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" In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive. "
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Oddly
" The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry. "
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Want
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" I've turned down jobs because I've said, 'Honestly, I can't find my way in. I can't do it. I love you, as a director. I think the script is good. You deserve better than I think I can do.' "
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Love
Better
Good
" I think Polanski's an amazing director. "
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I Think
Amazing
" Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery. "
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Sex
You
Die
" You can't control your mind. Why would you want to? "
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Your
Control
Mind
" I had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore. "
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Typecast
Anymore
Fear
" I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well. "
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Sit
Discipline
Understand
" I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted. "
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Work Hard
Talent
Work
" I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for acting... I liked the idea of collaboration, and I thought if I'm gonna write plays, I should learn something about speaking the lines that I might try to write. "
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Thought
Collaboration
Time
" It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say. "
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Like
Say
Trying
" Privacy is something I have come to respect. I think when I was younger I wanted to tell everybody everything, because I thought I was so damn interesting. Then I heard the snoring. "
David Duchovny
Think
Respect
Interesting
" I enjoy trying to figure out the best way to compliment the picture and not overpower it. "
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Trying
Best
Compliment
" I'm constantly amazed by the ability a child has to show sympathy, to read emotions, to get to the heart of any situation. It's unfiltered and completely inspiring. "
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Child
Show
Situation
" I'm very proud of my Scottish blood. "
David Duchovny
Scottish
Proud
Blood
" Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet. "
David Duchovny
Call
Poetry
Well
" What strikes me is that 'XIII' looks like a movie. The shot making is movie-like, which is kind of fun - the kind of playful action movie shot making is pretty, is pretty good. What's also great about this game is its style and interesting story-line. "
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Good
Me
Fun
" In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before. "
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More
Much
Before
" I mean, you always want everybody to pat you on the back and tell you you're wonderful every time you do something; I think that's human nature. "
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Think
You
Time
" I love the ocean, wide-open space and trees, but I'm not a gardener or anything like that. I think I may be, eventually. I was raised in the city, so I don't have that skill set, but my heart is more with the dirt than the concrete. It's an unrequited love with nature - a one-way love affair. "
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Love
Nature
Ocean
" On the one hand, people think they own kids; they feel that they have the right to tell the kids what to do. On the other hand, people envy kids. We'd like to be kids our whole lives. Kids get to do what they do. They live on their instincts. "
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Think
People
Envy
" The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born. "
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Born
Daughter
Moment
" There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life's rich experience. "
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Wrong
Nothing
Life
" I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything. "
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Anything
Scottish
" I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do. "
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Think
Work
Mom
" I won't look online. The whole fan thing makes me self-conscious, which is not to say I don't appreciate it or understand it. If Mickey Mantle were around, I'm sure I'd have a ton of questions to ask him that might make him uncomfortable. I get it. That doesn't mean it's not really awkward. "
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Questions
Appreciate
Me
" I never, ever, ever cook. And I would never eat anything I might cook. "
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Never
Ever
Eat