David Crystal Quotes
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.
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R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.
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One of the hardest things to do in acting is to stop thinking about yourself and stop being self-conscious.
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There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.
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I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.
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When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.
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I promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life.
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You never get the Shakespeares right. It's not possible.
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The joke that I make is that there are instances on the TV series that happen to me, - except on Sex and the City they always make it better or worse than real life and I am actually saying that in a joking way.
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Sequels are desperate.
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You tend to compose things more in the middle of frame in 3-D than you would in a conventional frame. You can really see composition in 2-D but in 3-D your composition is much more complex. Everything has to be artificially enhanced. But you do gain something else with 3-D: you have a sense of space and heightened reality.
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So many girls come up and say to me, 'I have never listened to country music in my life. I didn't even know my town had a country-music station. Then I got your record, and now I'm obsessed.' That's the coolest compliment to me.
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Making music is an emotional thing. And when you're on a video shoot with 50 people there, you have to somehow, in a non-emotional way, say what you want and not feel guilty for it. And that takes growing up and that takes... not caring how people perceive you as much. And it just takes experience, I think.
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I don't care whether the story is real or fantastical. I tell the story that needs to be told.
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Our ability to predict how the federal funds rate will evolve over time is quite limited because monetary policy will need to respond to whatever disturbances may buffet the economy.
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Think about last time you were broke ... now how well did it go with spending your way out of it? Did that work?
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Do something to make your community a better place to live.
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Online, you show how brilliant you are by manipulating the language of the Internet.