David A. Stewart Quotes
Most people who get into power in the western world start with great intentions, but slowly they all become entrapped and hung by their own petard.
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I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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I am a just man.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.
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I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'
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We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
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People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.
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It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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The line we draw between animals that are socially acceptable and those we find repugnant can be awfully arbitrary.
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Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.
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Most people who get into power in the western world start with great intentions, but slowly they all become entrapped and hung by their own petard.
