David Gilmour Quotes
I've been in The Who, I've been in The Beatles and I've been in Pink Floyd! Top that!
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One of the reasons I am successful as a producer is that I've been a very successful housewife.
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You can't bank on the outcome.
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I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.
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'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
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Mobile video is now a reality and a force to be reckoned with. I think it is essential to think about how people interact with their phones; how they consume content and how they share.
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I don't think about fights that didn't happen.
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With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.
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I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.
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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
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It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.
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What I think I'm perceived as in France is, like, I'm this leading man always doing strange movies because most of the movies I did, like 'Irreversible' or 'Brotherhood of the Wolf' and a bunch of others, and even in France, they always come out as a particular movie, not like the typical French kind of movies that people know most of the time.
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Because Mr. Mandela's early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'
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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.
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Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being trained for military combat. I thought that this had just gone too far.
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Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
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I didn't do a masters in creative writing until I was 26, which is quite old, and then I found myself in New York and I needed money, so I started working full time as an editor.
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When I was very small, maybe 8 years old, we had a big radio that stood on four legs, and it had a cross piece underneath it, and I used to take a pillow and crawl under the radio.
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Acting is not terribly important work, and I have always felt a bit of guilt about pursuing something that is so selfish. I love doing it, but it is never something that feels like it's going to change or save the world.
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When you see something that is technically sweet you go ahead and do it.
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I bought these pink sticker things... and I would write things on them, and I wrote, 'I will write an international smash,' and shortly after, it was when we did 'Monster,' and it was an international smash.
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I've been identified with pink throughout my career, but I'm not as crazy about it as I've led people to believe. My favorite colors are actually neutrals—black and white—but then who thinks of a movie queen in black and white? Everything has to be in living color.
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Healthy can be the new good. Eating delicious should not be sacrificed because it's healthy.
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I've been in The Who, I've been in The Beatles and I've been in Pink Floyd! Top that!
