David Garrick Quotes
Prologues like compliments are loss of time;’T is penning bows and making legs in rhyme.
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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I had no desire to crash a man's world.
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long as they may reasonably be needed to investigate a crime. After a few days, if there has not been a report of a crime, they should be destroyed.
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I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.
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I say I haven't lost my religion. I've lost my ideology.
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One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
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The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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I am a journalist.
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I am married.
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While I don't in any way question your honor, your patriotism or your service to our country, I do question some of the decisions, the judgments you’ve made over the past two and a half years. During that time things have gotten markedly and progressively worse.
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I could've always worked shows, clubs, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, but I was successful in business ventures, and things weren't happening in show business, so I said, 'Let me see what I can do.'
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I had a place at university to study theology and philosophy. I got the divinity prize at my school two years in a row. Probably because there were only 10 of us, but still.
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There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.
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Prologues like compliments are loss of time;’T is penning bows and making legs in rhyme.
