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David Levithan
"That's the problem with having a moral code. We want to destroy the jerkish part of the jerks, but we want to save the human being underneath."
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David Levithan
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“One thing you can't pretend to be is funny.”
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“When I'm writing a script, I don't worry about plot as much as I do about people. I get to know the main characters - what they need, what they want, what they should do. That's what gets the story going. You can't just have action, you've got to find out what the characters want. And then they must grow, they must go somewhere.”
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“I do esteem individual liberty above everything.”
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“There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.”
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“The ego says, ‘I shouldn’t have to suffer,’ and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it.”
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“There is a certain element of complementarity between men and women that is biological by nature.”
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“Any MP has to have a proper family life, they have to have support of their partner.”
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“That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The situation is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.”