David Copperfield Quotes
Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.
Quotes to Explore
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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When people read 'Breitbart' every single day and convince themselves that Barack Obama is a foreign terrorist, that is not a problem of government. That is a problem of community failure, and we have to recognize that.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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Happiness is an inside job.
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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I don't wear plaid shirts.
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I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
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I myself was completely torn by the decision to start Teach For America. There was a voice in my head telling me not to do it - to take a more normal path. I did have one thing going for me, which was that I had been rejected from all the other jobs I'd applied to.
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
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The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That's something obviously that The Beatles started and... so having that darkness there opens another door.
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I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.
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The Disney deal for us, we are very excited to be their Pay 1 partner, where we are a big licensing partner of Disney all over the world in all different windows.
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If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.
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I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.
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We want to let our play be the judges.
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When the United States media is paying attention, that's when you're really representing your country.
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Sometimes you need to break away from something in order to know how much you need or want it.
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I got a C in art when I was in 11th grade. That it is even possible to come out of a high school art class with a C is wondrous, especially considering the creative license we were encouraged to use to, for lack of a better axiom, color outside the lines.
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I love the 3D revolution. I love the technology today that continues to push the envelope, continues break the new ground, and continues to raise the bar.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course.
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Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.
