David Farr Quotes
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When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
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'The Da Vinci Code' is the most popular book of our times.
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When you find something that you really love to do, you kind of just know instantly that, OK yeah, I want to do this for the rest of my life.
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For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.
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Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
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Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me.
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
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Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.
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I was very happy in Bombay. I was good at school. There was no reason to change anything. I suppose it must have been some spirit of adventure, of wanting to see the world.
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Theatre is relatively easy if you're British - you're living in the theatre capital of the world, London - there are so many places you can work, still. If I had begun to think of myself as a film actor, I think I would have got distracted.
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What is problematic about Obamacare is that it is killing millions of jobs in this country and has killed millions of jobs. It has forced millions of people into part time work. It has caused millions of people to lose their insurance, to lose their doctors, and to face skyrocketing insurance premiums. That is unacceptable.
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On the day when we can fully trust each other, there will be peace on Earth.
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It was as if the whole western mind-training of individual differences had been made background instead of figure, so that you'd look at another human being and say, 'Here we are.' You'd see differences more as clothing, rather than as core stuff.
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I'm all about taking chances. You have to ask yourself, if you're not taking any chances, are you actually even living? Every time you walk out of your door and you're out in the world, you take a chance on not coming back. That is the danger and the dynamic of being alive.
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Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.
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If you're playing basketball with someone who's better than you, you have to get better or else it's no fun.
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If you can deal with hot emotions, then you can study for the S.A.T. instead of watching television, and you can save more money for retirement. It's not just about marshmallows.
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Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre.
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As a director, I start with the visual.
