David Strathairn Quotes
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I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up using pipe tobacco. It burned slower, and it wasn't as harsh on my throat... It also smelled better.
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Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.
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If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.
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I don't think I could've carried the weight that Murrow carried.
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Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.
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Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.
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In order to crash the party and be a clown with your own skit, you had to be there for quite a while.
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When you're creating a character out of nothing, you have to make all the guesses as to how they walk, how they talk, how they think. It was all there on the table for us to pick and choose for Murrow.
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Decisions made in real time are never perfect.
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You work enough with someone and you develop a shorthand. You know how he likes to work through the day and he knows where you're vulnerable and where your weaknesses and strengths are, so it makes for a good team, a team that knows who's over there behind your back.
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It's either the Amendment or this Confederate peace. You cannot have both.
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So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.
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If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.
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When people and animals die, they stay with us in our minds.
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