David Green Quotes
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.
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Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.
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To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
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I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.
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I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion.
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Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.
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The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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I don't know how many great Brazilians have played in the Olympics and not been able to win it.
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Who's your daddy? Who's your baby?Who's your buddy? Who's your friend?And who's the one guy that you come runnin' toWhen your lovelife starts tumblin'?I got the money if you got the honeyLet's cut a deal, let's make a planWho's your daddy? Who's your baby?Who's your buddy? Who's your man?
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Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors. We're not asking for special treatment for rural America, just a fair deal.
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A Democrat has to show the toughness to govern. People don't doubt that Republicans will be tough.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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My father and mother had tremendous integrity, and obviously that affected me.
