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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If you got a dope girl, there's going to be people that want her. But I don't know, I've always kept my 'A-game' on point. I just make a point to make sure the woman that I'm with is taken care of. You got to keep it new, so I go out of my way to make them feel special.
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I never take on anything that is just for the money or just for, you know. I always have to connect with it in a very personal way because I believe the audience will sense whether I'm into it or not, so I don't take on projects that I'm not really passionate about.
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Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world.
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The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.
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I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It's a shame.
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I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.
