David Lindsay-Abaire
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STEPHEN COLLETTI NICKI MINAJ You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your h... MAHAVISHNU JOHN MCLAUGHLIN DAVE GROHL JON ORINGER I've pretty much accepted the fact that you're going to meet ignorant people, and that's... HASAN M. ELAHI YARA SHAHIDI DREW GODDARD JOHN MCENROE Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the the... AL LOPEZ Sometimes, to stimulate your imagination you have to be careful you don't have too much informat... DRIES VAN NOTEN You can binge a TV series or watch a reality show, and they're not innocent. They take a lot of ... RAOUL PECK ROBYN DAVIDSON CHARLES BUKOWSKI I know it's a lot harder for women who don't have enough help, but the truth is, no matter h... PATRICIA RICHARDSON You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Tak... PATSY CLINE BRYAN SINGER When you're with another actor who's also been through five hours of prosthetic makeup, and ... ALEXANDRA DADDARIO I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product and y... DAVID ANDERS Here's the deal: You can't go in with the intent that, 'All right, we're gonna write... RICKEY MEDLOCKE Even in comedy, you have to be real. It's all about being real. It's how real can you be? Th... CRAIG ROBINSON When you're a guest star on a movie or a TV show, I always say it's like being invited to a ... ATO ESSANDOH It's okay to fail 'cause there's no failure, you're just informing the richness of y... BEN FOSTER It's hard to bury your head in Los Angeles. People come up to you and say, 'Hey, I saw your ... CHELSEA PERETTI LANA TURNER I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES When you're in your 20s, you're a little more carefree; you're single. You have a very d... MELISSA DE SOUSA JIM ROHN LEROY NEIMAN You can't change who you are, but you can change what you have in your head, you can refresh wha... ERNESTO BERTARELLI My process is very disempowering to the director anyway, so it's essential that you be respectfu... DAVID MILCH NEIL PATRICK HARRIS CHARLIE SHEEN MIRANDA HART With a series, keeping the quality high and writing incredibly fast, that's the first lesson you... ALEX KURTZMAN Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at n... JOHN LEE HOOKER MARCUS SAMUELSSON There are things you do when you're writing that are so fun to do it's almost like they'... CHAD HARBACH So you don't speak English, you have no ID, you can't tell where you're from... that'... JOE ARPAIO In a play, you know where you start and end and all the stops you have to do, but in television, you... CAITLIN FITZGERALD CAROL BURNETT TAMORA PIERCE PHIL KNIGHT NANCY REAGAN It's very easy to get excited about a job, but it's a big commitment because you do it and t... BRIDGET FONDA HILARY MANTEL KENDRA WILKINSON SHAKIRA DANNY DEVITO SHAY MITCHELL ABBEY LEE KERSHAW JACLYN SMITH If you don't take a Sabbath, something is wrong. You're doing too much, you're being too... EUGENE H. PETERSON To have faith doesn't mean you get any less frustrated when you don't do your best, but you ... TOM LEHMAN And what I am trying to say to them that through our ads and through our discussions is if you don&#... LEE SCOTT CATE BLANCHETT Your children can be around you all day, but if you don't spend quality time with them and you d... BRANDY NORWOOD Kids will keep it real. If I've ever had in my life a great anchor, it's them. They get in y... LIONEL RICHIE It's impossible to change the social without changing the personal - you have to put your money ... CARRIE MAE WEEMS ARUNDHATI ROY TONY LA RUSSA Sometimes you think about the job that we, as actors, do. I take it very seriously, and I care very ... CHARLIE COX AASIF MANDVI Everyone Instagrams all the people they are with. I get that it's part of the job. But there'... EDIE CAMPBELL BOB NEWHART You can't dwell in your past but move forward, look forward. That's it. CAROLINE WOZNIACKI KRIS CARR People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejud... CARLY FIORINA Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer... NAOMI WATTS LYNSEY ADDARIO LINDA RONSTADT DAVID CROSBY HELEN MIRREN ESAI MORALES If you're running for reelection in the House of Representatives race, you know, it's very i... ROBERT MCCHESNEY It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think ... 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From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I ... DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE I don't want to work on a musical if I'm not the lyricist. DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE I've been pretty well treated by the critics, but the critics who didn't like my comedies ha... DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE Meggie Folchart: Having writer's block? Maybe I can help.DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole. DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE Film is mostly a visual medium, and so the director has much more control in terms of painting pictu... DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE I didn't go into 'Rabbit Hole' wanting to write about class. I think because of who I am... DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE Having deadlines helps because people are constantly breathing down my neck, and tapping their toes ... DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE I'm going to do whatever interests me. Look, writing 'Rabbit Hole' came out of an intere... DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever... DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE I'm not saying people shouldn't apply themselves and work hard. You do have to try to make y... DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE We have this myth that if you work hard, you can accomplish anything. It's not a very American t... DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth... DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my iden... DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE The best moment for work or study never arrives; one should therefore work whenever one can. DAVID LINDSAY I don't know, and I can't answer you tonight. DAVID LINDSAY You can't call 43 days a dire emergency, DAVID LINDSAY We opened every potential flood gate we could, ... We were at least expecting a lot of rain. DAVID LINDSAY Emotion resembles a wheel spinning free. When the cogs work, action begins, emotion ceases. DAVID LINDSAY Imagination without study is the self-indulgence of the intellect. DAVID LINDSAY With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member cl... TED LINDSAY When it was my turn, I just skated out and heard this huge cheer. It was very touching considering t... TED LINDSAY They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the playe... TED LINDSAY The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains. TED LINDSAY Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist. TED LINDSAY I liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red Win... TED LINDSAY By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six. TED LINDSAY After three years in Chicago, I decided to call it a career. TED LINDSAY What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners. TED LINDSAY Starting that union was something I believed in very strongly. TED LINDSAY I love people and I love to be around people. TED LINDSAY I had that flying wheel tattooed on my forehead and on my butt. TED LINDSAY At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it. TED LINDSAY Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Sta... TED LINDSAY A series of rumors about my attitude, as well as derogatory remarks about myself and my family showe... TED LINDSAY I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey... TED LINDSAY I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wa... TED LINDSAY My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded. TED LINDSAY VACHEL LINDSAY VACHEL LINDSAY KARA LINDSAY KARA LINDSAY KARA LINDSAY KARA LINDSAY KARA LINDSAY KARA LINDSAY KARA LINDSAY KARA LINDSAY KARA LINDSAY I always believed I was an ugly duckling in a family of swans, you know? I was such a black sheep, a... LINDSAY PEARCE LINDSAY LOHAN My parents' generation was definitely pre-telly, and they knew how to entertain each other. Ever... LINDSAY DUNCAN JEFF LINDSAY JEFF LINDSAY We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can ... ARTO LINDSAY JEFF LINDSAY VACHEL LINDSAY BRYAN LINDSAY VACHEL LINDSAY LINDSAY ANDERSON Pontius Pilate was the first great censor, and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship. BEN LINDSAY VACHEL LINDSAY LINDSAY LOHAN Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside i... NORMAN LINDSAY LINDSAY FOX LINDSAY LOHAN LINDSAY LOHAN KARA LINDSAY LINDSAY FOX KARA LINDSAY But a funny thing happened four years later. I was invited to play for an alumni team against the Re... 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JOHN LINDSAY Smart girl 101: Never let a stranger follow you to your hotel room. LINDSAY CHAMBERLIN JEFF LINDSAY JEFF LINDSAY I don't perform well in private. Socially, I mean. And I didn't as a child. Actors aren'... LINDSAY DUNCAN JEFF LINDSAY JEFF LINDSAY JEFF LINDSAY The Lounge Lizards were relating with a tradition and it was like I was playing within a musical con... ARTO LINDSAY Playing with Kip I definitely learned a lot playing with these incredible guys and hearing them. ARTO LINDSAY My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil. ARTO LINDSAY It was very interesting for me because DNA made music without much technical knowledge at all. ARTO LINDSAY It was a turning point in the sense that as a scene, we can up with a lot of new ideas. ARTO LINDSAY It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different b... ARTO LINDSAY I just had this notion that I wanted to do the most extreme thing I could and I also very consciousl... ARTO LINDSAY I had this idea for a while to do mix this Al Green vibe with a samba thing. I tried to do that in m... ARTO LINDSAY I had friends in this band called Mars and they used to play a lot. ARTO LINDSAY Certainly since then many people have taken a lot of those ideas and ridden them for years and years... ARTO LINDSAY JEFF LINDSAY LINDSAY LOHAN LINDSAY LOHAN JEFF LINDSAY LINDSAY LOHAN LINDSAY LOHAN KARA LINDSAY LINDSAY DAVENPORT LINDSAY LOHAN LINDSAY LOHAN JEFF LINDSAY LINDSAY LOHAN I desperately wanted to play the part of Darth Vader's mother - I think she ended up being playe... LINDSAY DUNCAN We don't have any choice. We have to play hard defensively or we wouldn't be able to stay in games. BOB LINDSAY I told the team this is probably as good a road win as we've had. We came out of the gates pretty qu... BOB LINDSAY We really found a way to win, but we certainly didn't look well doing it. BOB LINDSAY We couldn't make any shots. You have to give credit to their defense for our shooting percentages. BOB LINDSAY She's certainly from an offensive standpoint maybe as good as any player we've ever had here. BOB LINDSAY We went into a different set. We tried to move Lindsay (Shearer) around a little bit, and I think sh... BOB LINDSAY I have done some wonderful television, but you know, there's not as much exceptional material as... LINDSAY DUNCAN JEFF LINDSAY JEFF LINDSAY JEFF LINDSAY JEFF LINDSAY JEFF LINDSAY Work used to be the No. 1 important thing to me. Everything revolved around it, and to have a new pe... LINDSAY PRICE LINDSAY FOX LINDSAY ANDERSON LINDSAY ANDERSON LINDSAY ANDERSON LINDSAY ANDERSON LINDSAY ANDERSON Confidential. Do I want it back? Absolutely not. Obviously the sled works for her. Did it work for m... LINDSAY ALCOCK When I try to control too much, the flow is gone. With our sport, you have to let things flow. LINDSAY ALCOCK Now there's a real sense of confidence within the entire program. LINDSAY ALCOCK I'm very happy today and back in the right spot. The season has been baby steps. All season my coach... LINDSAY ALCOCK LINDSAY LOHAN LINDSAY LOHAN LINDSAY LOHAN LINDSAY DAVENPORT LINDSAY WAGNER It's an important point to make that people can't just be invalidated, eradicated, because t... LINDSAY DUNCAN LINDSAY DAVENPORT LINDSAY LOHAN JEFF LINDSAY
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A lot of the records you buy, there's nothing you can hold in your hand, it's all 1's an... 
The problem with taking venture capital is if you take $5m from someone, it may feel great; you may ... 
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You start to fall in love with characters as you work with them, and anytime that you care about you... 
It's one thing if you live in London and you're rooting for Chelsea or you're in New Yor... 
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