David Carson Quotes
I'm experimenting in public. At the design grad schools, these are people sitting around in groups, putting their work on a wall, analyzing it and putting it back in a drawer. I think there's little risk in that.
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I'm a big believer if you want to change people's minds or get someone to vote for you, either a voter or a colleague, you've got to first get their attention.
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I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?
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The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
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That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.
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By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really makes people feel good and I know it certainly made me feel good.
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My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns.
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Blending tracks and weaving and manipulating prerecorded music to create this mood, some people do it much better than others.
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There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.
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A lot of the things that loved ones say to each other, friends would never accept.
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People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.
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In my life, I've never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.
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People kind of have a misconception, because when someone calls me Theo and I correct them, say, 'No, my name is Malcolm,' they think I have an attitude about it and I don't want to be associated with the show.
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Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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People in England talk about stupid Hollywood idiots, but the industry attracts some of the cleverest people in the world.
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In the end, young people are at risk of being disinherited from their community if that community lacks the courage and confidence to teach its history.
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I got better as an actor, and still I'm getting better. That's only been possible because there's always been work.
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It is the shared experience - [although] you're the conduit of the sound, the recipient is also in some way the author of the work, because if they weren't the author of the work they wouldn't be able to recognise it as an experience, you could argue. The more distance you can put between yourself and having any kind of objective the more likely it is to appear.
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I'm experimenting in public. At the design grad schools, these are people sitting around in groups, putting their work on a wall, analyzing it and putting it back in a drawer. I think there's little risk in that.
