David Crystal Quotes
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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You look at a Pete Rose to be the terrific athlete he is and then he falls on hard times, but when he played the game, I got something from the way he played the game because he hustled every play, and just because he had one mistake in his life, am I supposed to throw back everything that I gained from him?
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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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All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
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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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Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.
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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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While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it.
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The crew are the faces you see every morning and last at night before you go home. I spend more time with those people than I do with my friends and family, so they're forever a part of you and who you become as an actor so I hope I see them again.
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I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs.
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Beware of any belief that makes you self-indulgent; it came from the pit, no matter how beautiful it sounds.
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I'm from a small Irish family of 10, so there always was music in the house. Growing up, my older sisters had things like 'South Pacific' and opera on.
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Online, you show how brilliant you are by manipulating the language of the Internet.
