David Horsey Quotes
I almost literally wake up in the morning starting to think of my next idea. It's almost always driven by what's in the news. The hard part, really, is getting from knowing what I want to say to figuring out how to say it in an image. I'm still not entirely sure how to explain how that happens... Suddenly, something just works.
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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Now my goal is to be strong. I get two classes in a week, and they'll be either barre or reformer Pilates.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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With Fancy Bear, we have medium-level confidence it's GRU, which is Russia's military intelligence agency, and with Cozy Bear, we have low-level confidence it's FSB, the Russian federal security service.
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If I went to them all dressed up and flashed a nice smile for the cameras it would probably be easier for me to get work. But I just can't tolerate it.
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I had this dream in my head of, if I got hired by 'SNL, what that moment would be like. And I dreamed that I would, like, collapse on the sidewalk and cry to the heavens. I got this call, and it didn't happen naturally. But I did it anyway because I wanted to have that moment. So I did collapse.
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From the director's point of view, it's infinitely easier to do violence than to do a good dramatic scene.
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I almost literally wake up in the morning starting to think of my next idea. It's almost always driven by what's in the news. The hard part, really, is getting from knowing what I want to say to figuring out how to say it in an image. I'm still not entirely sure how to explain how that happens... Suddenly, something just works.
