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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A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
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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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It is inevitable that many ideas of the young mind will later have to give way to the hard realities of life.
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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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My mum and my husband are from Irish backgrounds, so we have a lot of potatoes. Chips, mashed, boiled, new potatoes, I love them all. Even the slightly wonky ones like Duchess potatoes that go up in a little spiral.
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My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
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The more patient we are, the more understanding we become.
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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.
