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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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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I'm not recognised much at all.
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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
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The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.
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To every description of citizens, let praise be given. but let them persevere in their affectionate vigilance over that precious depository of American happiness, the Constitution of the United States. Let them cherish it, too, for the sake of those who, from every clime, are daily seeking a dwelling in our land.
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According to their nature, there are both people who have quick intelligence, and those who must withdraw and take time to think things over.
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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.
