David Copperfield Quotes
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I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.
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I am a big Pink Floyd fan. That is where a lot of the concept lyrics come from.
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I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.
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A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.
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I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
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The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.
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I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.
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I know victims of domestic abuse. I know what it takes for people to get out, and I also know why people stay. It's heartbreaking.
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Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.
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If there is anything about your 'self' of which you can be sure, it is that it is anchored in your own body and yours alone. The person you experience as 'you' is here and now and nowhere else.
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You can find lots of people like you through technology, and women in particular like communities.
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Children are already accustomed to a world that moves faster and is more exciting than anything a teacher in front of a classroom can do.
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Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.
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It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element.
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Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
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That's who I wanted to be like was Bob Dylan.
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There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
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Good Will is the mightiest practical force in the universe.
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Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads.
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I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.
