David Cross Quotes
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Nationalism in Norway was very strong in 1905, that we must be free of Sweden. But I must say, I'm not 100 percent sure that was a wise decision. We had the war; we were occupied by Germans from 1940 to '45. And if there had been one Scandinavian country, then it would not have been so very easy probably to go ahead with the occupation.
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
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Being born Roman and Romanisti is a privilege.
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The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.
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I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
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The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
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I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.
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I always wonder if my kids will say they're mixed or black.
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I've definitely had my moments in relationships where I've been able to say yes, I have been heartbroken, my heart has been broken.
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We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.
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I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.
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A couple of games, I played up front when Diego Costa was not there. We know to create movement - not even to get the ball, but create space for others. Now I understand football is not always with the ball at my feet.
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Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.
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Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.
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'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late.
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I'm one of those guys that spins through the clicker when I'm watching TV. When one of my movies comes on, I'll watch a scene or two.
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We are all fools with our sons. We wipe them and suckle them and all we expect is for them to be grateful to the end of their days.
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I think all my pictures are ideas, and they're ideas made into images.
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The best thing about me is there are no skeletons.
