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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When you look at our programme for the next few weeks, you do not fancy a trip to the Oktoberfest.
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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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When I was very young, I got my first opportunity in television with a show called 'Surfing the Menu,' and it was myself and another buddy. We traveled around Australia and we surfed and cooked and drank too much wine. And we had a lot of fun.
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I loved plays, I loved films, but I had no desire to act until I had just put out my album 'Like Water for Chocolate.' Creatively, I felt like I'd hit a ceiling, and I needed something else to express myself, and I just decided to take acting classes.
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They will always tell you that you can't do what you want to do, but you can do what you want to do. You just have to believe in yourself. The system is to bring you down, but you can rise up.
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I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.
