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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have several different masks that I wear. "

" 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. "

" Most races are claiming races. For the lower-caliber horses, it's a way the track has of forcing people to run their horses at approximately the price at which they would not mind having the horse bought. "

" 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. "

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

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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. "

David Milch

Rome

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

" All I do is work and be with my family. "

David Milch

Work

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" I am kind of an undecipherable commodity to a lot of people, including myself. "

" If you have a horse that can beat horses worth $20,000, typically you enter it in a $20,000 claiming race. Now there might be people who feel their horse is worth $20,000, and they say, 'I wouldn't mind seeing the horse get beat.' So they'll enter it for $40,000 so the horse looks like it's performed badly. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I was growing up, it was not the heyday of the western. "

" 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. "

" 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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" Your fundamental responsibility is to stay true to the deepest nature and intention of the materials. "

" 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. "

" The whole idea of going out to a movie was really a secularized version of going to church. "

" What cops are hired to do is to control people who will not abide by the social contract. "

" 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 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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" Ego suppression can be an act of ostentation. "

" 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. "

" 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. "