David Crystal Quotes
Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn't linguistically sensible.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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I had experiences or exposure to music in church. I went to a church, it was very unique. It was a predominantly African American Catholic church. So they would have - one mass would be traditional church music, and then the other mass would be gospel music.
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Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.
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Did I shop Kmart for clothing? No, I didn't. But I loved that I could be totally involved in the hangtags, the buttons, the commercials and with the designers. Something in my head said 'Yes.' I was adventurous.
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People get so trapped by their technology now. Real life is so much better. I love talking with my mother and father. We really enjoy staying in and making a meal together. I'm very close with all four of my older sisters as well.
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I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want to be 'an actor.'
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People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
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You should allow professors to become really outstanding academicians, recognised worldwide, and you should reward them.
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I'm very picky about what I'll do and the message the film has in it.
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I love being around my mom and my dad.
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Venture capitalists are like lemmings jumping on the software bandwagon.
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I'm a travel enthusiast.
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Bob Hurwitz, the president of Nonesuch, the company that releases my records, is a mentor. He taught me how to assemble a script to record an album.
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I am a daddy's girl at heart, even though I'm in my 30s.
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I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.
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Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?
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It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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You don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate.
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I'm an actor, learning lines and saying them in the right order.
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Nothing at times is more expressive than silence.
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Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners, so, when the first class brain does something stupid, the stupidity of that occasion is colossal.
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Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn't linguistically sensible.
