David Joyce Quotes
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
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Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.
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It's a voluntary act. I cannot punish anyone not taking the public transport, but I want everyone, from the highest ranking officers to the lowest, to take public transport every Wednesday.
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I study hard at Russian, which is a tough but most attractive language.
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If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
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But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
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If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.
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In 2001, I was being treated for breast cancer, and I was pretty sure I was going to recover.
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If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.
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I certainly think it's really important that folks in the metropolitan area be able to meet the increased cost of living.
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The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.
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I'd end all of the wars. I'd bring all of the troops home and make sure that they're taken care of for life - for what they did protecting our country.
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What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?
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In the first person, the readers feel smart, like it's them solving the case.
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You experience your soul each time you sense yourself as more than a mind and body, your life as meaningful, or you feel that you have gifts to give and you long to give them.
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I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.
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In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force.
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Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.
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It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde.
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In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
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Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.
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He made a few errors in judgment, but he certainly didn't deserve what happened to him.
