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I don't like watching people work if they're making art.

David Duchovny

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David Duchovny
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: August 7
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New York City
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David William Duchovny
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I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.
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When I was a kid I ate sports books up, like Winners Never Quit by Phil Pepe. That was like my bible.
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I don't want to know what happens in any movie that I go to see.
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I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal.
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It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.
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I reread Ball Four by Jim Bouton, the father of all sports books. Aside from that, and books like Out of Their League by Dave Meggyesy, sports books generally pull their punches.
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My whole life, Ive wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life.
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I'm actually thinking about getting back to being a bath tub. I don't think anyone's ever quite segued into that.
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As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot.
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I'm half Jewish, half Scottish. It's hard for me to buy anything.
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I feel I have to work hard to nurture whatever talent I have as an actor. I feel like it's not natural to me. So I don't take it for granted... What I think is my natural ability - which is writing - I think I totally take that for granted.
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I think it was W.H. Auden who said he was lucky that his first favorite poet was Thomas Hardy, who was a good but not a great poet, because if you are exposed to the greats too soon it can just squash you as a writer.
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Maybe with Californication the character was partly based on Rick Moody. I read him and Jay McInerney, the templates for this bad boy novelist.
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I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.
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Usually, when I act, I try to forget the words and let them come, and just find my way through them.
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My favorite parts of work as an actor and a director are those unplanned mistakes that do happen, because it's like catching lightning in a bottle. It's the best part of what we do.
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Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.
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