David Farr Quotes
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Bond? It is a bit like saying, 'Do you want to play Superman?' Anyone would dream of it. It's one of the most coveted roles in film. I'd be honoured. But I don't know if it will actually happen. I'm just happy with the idea of being associated with it. It's nice there's a lot of good will.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
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What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.
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I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.
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If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
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Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
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Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.
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People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
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Jews have always thought that having someone elevated with his head above the grass was not good for the Jews. I never felt that way. I believe that you have to stand up.
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But hey, if that’s too much to ask, tell them to just become Christians—you know, the people who get to go to heaven without having to commit to anything
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We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.
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This does not mean that we need treat all as equally true: it is up to individuals and groups to make up their minds. Freedom of faith allows for rich diversity of judgements as to the truth.
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If it proceeds as commercial development, I'd like to see it annexed. It could bring jobs, help the tax burden and bring us our own small airport.
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The 'Ramayana' explores the limits of secular freedom and the limits of religion.
