David Farr Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
-
My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
-
For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
-
I love to cook. But I have some food allergies, so I have to contend with those.
-
I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
-
When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?'
-
When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.
-
When you feel bad on the inside, you wind up wanting to do things to make others feel bad. In contrast, when you feel happy on the inside, you want to do things to make others feel happy.
-
It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
-
Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.
-
I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
-
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
-
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
-
Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
-
I enjoyed my time in the WRAF. There were plenty of people at the airfields where I worked, and they were all very good company.
-
I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt.
-
When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa.
-
You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you read when you were little - the innocence that you are able to maintain because you have to find that again in order to connect with your child keeps you in a special state of mind.
-
If you always experience new and better things than before, then you don't get tired at all.
-
The best way to detoxify is to stop putting toxic things into the body and depend upon it's own mechanisms.
-
The U.S. has not been big in new coaches - the U.S. is really behind Europe. It's the great passenger car and airplane that dominate American travel, and trains and buses have been much more secondary.
-
The sheer density of advertising creates a psychic mass, an overlay that can sometimes be very tense or aggressive. As a citizen, you have to participate in that every day. You have to walk by until it's changed.
-
Oh please...As a standup, I tried to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room. Not necessarily in that order.
-
I don't like selling myself. It's a sort of shy arrogance.
