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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A social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality, and one of the great ideas of our time is pluralism. Can people from different backgrounds live together in mutual peace and loyalty? And what we need is a generation of young social entrepreneurs who know how to make that great idea reality in an historical moment where religious extremists are, frankly, making their idea reality.
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I don't shoot guns. I don't know how to do that. I grew Upstate New York, so I fought with my fists.
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I grew up with tarot cards and the reading of tea leaves.
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Making a new car is so expensive that the risk factor is what takes the unique ideas and keeps reanalyzing them until they become very similar.
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I guess I've always lived the glamorous life of a star. It 's nothing new - I used to spend down to the last dime.
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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.
