Keith David Quotes
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I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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It's like a bird. If he knew what he was doing, he would fall.
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I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
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I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.
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I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - people assume you're writing about cats and romances where somebody has died.
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I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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You're not allowed to mess up in theater, and if you do, it is going to be embarrassing. But in film, if you make a mistake you just do it over again. You can just do another take.
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To not dare is to have already lost. We should seek out ambitious, even unrealistic projects, because things only happen when we dream.
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I remember my first actor that I really, really fell in love with was Tom Hanks. I suppose when I was growing up and getting more serious about acting, at that point, he was the biggest actor in the world.
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I really like supernatural stories, but, to me, 'Witches of East End' is really grounded. It's not just going for the magic tricks and keeping it superficial and action-y.
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In Chicago, we love our crooks!
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But Gargoyles, bar none, is the most fun I've ever had in life.
