David Hepworth Quotes
'Twenty Thousand Hertz' investigates the role of audio professionals in our daily lives, from the engineering that ensures a car door closes with that reassuring finality to the Foley artists of Hollywood who synthesise the sounds of marine life using old kitchen equipment gathered at the pound shop.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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We have a very loyal fan base, the kind tat buys the record the day it comes out, sees every show, and that's fantastic, but what about the people who would never hear about our band?
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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I get a lot of backlash for wearing designers that I feel are creators and artists. I get it all the time.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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My goals were last year to win the world champs and this year to win the Olympic Games and I've done that and I couldn't be happier.
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For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the reader.
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My lips got lost on the way to the kiss - that's how drunk I was.
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I like change. There's something Buddhist about it - continuous change is wonderful.
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I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because I was always using her as my mother, if you know what I mean.
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My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.
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'Twenty Thousand Hertz' investigates the role of audio professionals in our daily lives, from the engineering that ensures a car door closes with that reassuring finality to the Foley artists of Hollywood who synthesise the sounds of marine life using old kitchen equipment gathered at the pound shop.
