David Gest Quotes
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I'm probably not going to develop to a final state as an artist. Like, become better and better, more and more refined. Become 'pure.' I don't think that's going to happen to me, because I don't really see that as something I want to explore.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.
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'The Story of Us' is about running into someone I had been in a relationship with at an awards show, and we were seated a few seats away from each other. I just wanted to say to him, 'Is this killing you? Because it's killing me.' But I didn't. Because I couldn't. Because we both had these silent shields up.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.
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Casting my fate to the heavens, quite literally, I decided to go wireless. Completely wireless. All wireless, all the time, everywhere.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.
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Anytime you spend 15 or 16 hours a day with someone, five days a week for six months, that's more time than some people spend with their own families, so it does affect the dynamic between the actors.
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I never would have guessed that I would get a job for the way I sound. I would get notes about how I should lose my accent, and part of me thinks, 'How dare you! This is who I am! Millions of people want to sound like me!' But it's sensitive, and I have tried to change it, with little to no success.
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Even Karaoke needs higher standards than I can reach, so I have gone great lengths to avoid being bullied into it.
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If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.
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To be silent is to be passive.
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That's one of the reasons why 'Lost' has to end: because we can't sit around and envision, 'What is the flashback for Jack in year nine?' It doesn't realistically exist.
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Transformation literally means going beyond your form.
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But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.
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Effective translation of natural languages comes awfully close to requiring a sentient translator program.
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I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one eye squinted take it all as a blessing.
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Faces deceive, and the loveliness of youth is not like the loveliness of age - an absolute mirror of the soul within.
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Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
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I think the value of venues like CNBC is that they give investors an opportunity to reevaluate the situation minute by minute, but maybe we don't need to follow the market so closely.
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I was naive enough to think that I could make the difference.
