David Deida Quotes
Live with your lips pressed against your fears, kissing your fears, neither pulling back nor aggressively violating them.
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Exercise helps my back. If I don't exercise, that's when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
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At 93, I'm not looking forward to fame and fortune.
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'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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There's nobody that's ever really been able to take care of me. Johnny did for a bit. I believed what he said. Like if I said, 'What do I do?' he'd tell me. And that's what I missed when I left. I really lost that gauge of somebody I could trust.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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The World Series of Poker was becoming popular, and there were a lot of really bad poker players out there. The misperception was that I was really good, but I just ground it out. It was a good way to make money for Box.
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I'm not into 'Let's go out with one guy on a Monday and another guy on a Wednesday' - that's just not me.
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The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
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It is now clear that the controversial practices of companies that provide directories and an easy interface to libraries of unlicensed music are in fact detrimental to the growth of the music business and those artists whom they claim to support.
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A lot of actors think they can't be happy without the acting... But I think I couldn't be happy with it anymore.
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Live with your lips pressed against your fears, kissing your fears, neither pulling back nor aggressively violating them.
