Dave Rowntree Quotes
I think I would much rather push the boundaries of the degradation that the characters face.
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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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Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns.
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A spontaneous interview feels differently than anything else you see on television.
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Modalism was the view that evidently was held by a majority of Christians at the beginning of the third century—including the most prominent Christian leaders in the church, the bishops of the church of Rome (i.e., the early “popes”).
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God may choose to heal someone from cancer, yet that person still has a great deal of medical bills. The outstanding bills do not determine whether or not the patient has been healed by God.
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I think I would much rather push the boundaries of the degradation that the characters face.
