David Hepworth Quotes
'The Canon' is a film podcast that also has much in common with books podcast 'Backlisted.' Both suggest you can get a lot of pleasure out of things that aren't new.
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?
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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
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I feel like something I've wanted to do for a really long time, in a feature film or anything, is playing a rocker. Somewhere where I can be on a stage and have a guitar or a microphone and just kind of jam out.
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Politicians make mistakes. People misspeak in public. God knows I have proven both. A lot.
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There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.
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The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.
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Where liberty dies, evil grows.
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We played together for so long and we got to the point where our styles blended together. Even today, sometimes I'll hear our records and I'm not really sure who played what. And we took a bunch of acid together too.
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What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.
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'Lord of the Rings' was a childhood favorite, though the adult Rae wishes the women in those books had more significance and agency.
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Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
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If you read about Mussolini or Stalin or some of these other great monsters of history, they were at it all the time, that they were getting up in the morning very early. They were physically very active. They didn't eat lunch.
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I am a child of the '70s, so I love classic rock - Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, and I also love Coldplay.
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Die Philosophen haben die Welt nur verschieden interpretirt; es kommt aber darauf an, sie zu verändern.1
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To cry on court during a Wimbledon final, you must feel so lonely.
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I don't think I could compare myself to Macaulay Culkin, because we're pretty much two different kinds of actors. He's done a lot of comedy. He does mostly just comedy like 'Uncle Buck' and 'Home Alone' and 'Home Alone 2.' And I've done a lot of different stuff, like sad movies, like the movie about the kid with AIDS.
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How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles!
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It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while.
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'The Canon' is a film podcast that also has much in common with books podcast 'Backlisted.' Both suggest you can get a lot of pleasure out of things that aren't new.
