David Copperfield Quotes
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
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The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it.
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I'm a fast writer.
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The minute you step off that podium is the minute you start preparing for the next world championship. That's kind of how I work. You celebrate for a brief moment, then you move on.
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I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.
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My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do.
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If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.
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I originally wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. Then I had this huge fear of black holes because my brother learned a bunch of stuff about it, and he's like, 'Oh, yeah, if you go into one you're never coming back.'
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I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter.
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Transitioning to being an unemployed film actor is different, but it's fun and I've been looking forward to it for a while.
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Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.
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Obviously we had to study Shakespeare at school, but to be honest, I was not a fan. I found the language very difficult, and I didn't enjoy watching it or studying it. I auditioned five times for the Royal Shakespeare Company early on in my career, and I didn't even get past the first rounds.
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I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.
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Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.
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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
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God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.
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All of the action, and the Wild West West fun, crazy, HBO stuff is in there and it's all amazing, but what separates the show Westworld is that it's an existential drama. It's an intellectual nightmare. It is all very much based in reality. A lot of the technologies that we're exploring is stuff that we're working at, right now. All of this is not that far away. It's taking a look at humanity and the state that we're in now and what would happen, if we kept on going the way that we're going and we created this artificial intelligence.
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I'm very lucky to have a job that I love.
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The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.
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For me to grow, I have to know about the foundation that came before.
