David Crystal Quotes
As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I want to drink champagne from ladies' shoes.
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Like, radio is closer to a Tumblr, or a blog, or Twitter, than it is to television, I think.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.
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Money is small and the soul stands tall. All those who don't realize this, fall.
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The greatest tragedy in life is that some prayers go unanswered as they go unasked.
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There's no experience like going down an empty freeway toward a hurricane and then looking in the opposite lane and seeing bumper-to-bumper traffic, people fleeing that scene. Or going to a toxic spill and seeing people go the other way. You talk yourself into thinking you're invincible in order to do that.
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There's tremendous shame with being bullied. I think there's a level at which you think that there's a reason that you're being singled out, that you're being chosen.
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As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.
