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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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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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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Individual writers can certainly make a difference, but they are working within a system, an institution, that still holds tremendous power over whose voices are heard and whose voices are rewarded.
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He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.
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Holidays are also an opportunity for kids to unlearn every good habit they've learned during the rest of the year. They don't go to school. They get to stay up past their bedtime. They get candy and presents for doing nothing. Childhood utopia.
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Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.
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Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations.
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Online, you show how brilliant you are by manipulating the language of the Internet.
