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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Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
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He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.
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The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there is some underlying explanation that we have yet to fully understand. If someone wants to place the word 'God' on those collections of words, it's OK with me.
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Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
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I think that, for whatever reason, we've gotten to a place where, particularly in Hollywood, things have to be very pat. Like 'I'm a good guy. I'm a bad guy.'
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I sort of play golf because a lot of my friends are into it, but I'm awful - my handicap is about six or seven thousand.
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I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.
