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" 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. "
David Milch
Together
Working
Work
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" 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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" The predicate of modern medicine is, 'We invalidate your humanity, but we give you immortality, so you have to shut up and listen to us.' "
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" The whole idea of going out to a movie was really a secularized version of going to church. "
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" When I was growing up, it was not the heyday of the western. "
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Growing
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" 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. "
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Believe
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" What cops are hired to do is to control people who will not abide by the social contract. "
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Contract
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" 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
" You want to harbor your resources and try not to make a mistake. "
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Your
" Ego suppression can be an act of ostentation. "
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Ego
Act
Suppression
" A person could look at me through ninety-five per cent of my experience and know that I had no shot. Because I was so unreliable. The only thing you could rely on me for was to betray you. "
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Experience
Person
Me
" 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 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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Me
Rome
Time
" 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
" There is not an amount of money that a writer can earn that I can't blow. "
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Earn
Writer
Amount
" 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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My Own
Think
Try
" 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
" 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. "
David Milch
Old Man
Man
Me
" 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. "
David Milch
Director
Out
Process
" Your fundamental responsibility is to stay true to the deepest nature and intention of the materials. "
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Stay True
Nature
Responsibility
" 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. "
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Work
Years
" 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. "
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Someone
Racing
Excellence
" 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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Technology
Past
Goodbye
" I am an instrument of purposes that I don't fully understand. "
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I Am
Instrument
Am
" 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
Me
" 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
" All I do is work and be with my family. "
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Work
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. "
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Nature
Best
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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" Humility has to do with trying to be a vessel of purposes you're content to understand as not your own. "
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Trying