David Gest Quotes
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Tone can be as important as text.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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People constantly describe me as a formalist or even a minimalist, but I'm not really bothered with the rules of painting or the history of painting. My approach is that everything is mine. I take what I can use from wherever, and then I forget where I've taken it from. But there is no point me making anything that looks like anyone else's.
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There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.
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Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
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When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
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I would say that awards are for children. Because children need a tangible representation of their achievement. And as adults, you have to settle for the respect and admiration of your peers.
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You have to trust that the script is right and be comfortable with everything, and then you just have to go for it and disregard anything you've previously heard or felt about it.
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I've always been very tied to language.
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I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
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The feeble soul merely whines and complains.
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In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day.
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When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.
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I'm fascinated by male vulnerability.
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I think being a partner with the studios and networks and, more importantly, being a great source for consumers to watch that programming is always going to be a part of our programming mix.
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People had lost faith in me in Baltimore, and rightfully so. I knew that was not the guy I was.
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The more you're writing absolutely honestly, and absolutely bare of intention - even if it feels absolutely personal and small because it's at your own scale - other people relate to it much more.
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A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
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That's not my love; that's just your life.
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I did try to leave, and she came running after me.
