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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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
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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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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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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 think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain.
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Our easiest approach to a definition of any aspect of fiction is always by considering the sort of demand it makes on the reader. Curiosity for the story, human feelings and a sense of value for the characters, intelligence and memory for the plot. What does fantasy ask of us? It asks us to pay something extra.
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All that matters is to help the team.
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It's not like he called me up and asked me. They've never wanted to throw us into that world, and I think our decision probably shocked them. But I love my dad, and I think I'd regret it if I didn't do this.
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Look, everything that you experience as a kid is the foundation of how you are today. I was brought up in a working class family in Leeds and when it comes to money both my parents worked hard and instilled the same attitude into me.
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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.
