Dave Rowntree Quotes
I think I would much rather push the boundaries of the degradation that the characters face.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.
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Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
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The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
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I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say, writers from the South or writers from abroad, it's where they begin as children that is important to them.
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If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
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My great-grandmother lived to be 100 years old, so I got to know her. She always sent us birthday cards that had $2 bills inside - we kept them for good luck.
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It's better to have a rich soul than to be rich.
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I tried working odd jobs that had nothing to do with creating, and it was difficult for me. In the end, I just always loved movies. When I'm making a film, I feel most alive, like I'm doing the right thing, and I'm in the place where I need to be.
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It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.
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Film-making is not liberating. It drains a lot out of you, and it's fulfilling only temporarily. It's a very thankless thing at times. When you're spending all that time on a film, you don't want 40,000 people to see it - it's just not enough. You dream of more.
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The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
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Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying.
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For a wholesome collaboration of the sexes in professional life will be possible only if both achieve a calm and objective awareness of their nature and draw practical conclusions from it.
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When I was growing up, my dad was away a lot. He did a lot of work in crisis zones, places like Uganda or Rwanda.
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No one picked on me for my lunch money. Probably because it was the 1980s and no one had lunch money.
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The novel...creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the primitive craving for art, the wit, paradox and beauty of shape, the longing to see a dramatic pattern and significance in our experience.
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I think I would much rather push the boundaries of the degradation that the characters face.
