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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When you're living in the bush as a child, there's no television or no telephone, there's no neighbours and there's no talk much between people so you do, I suppose, develop to be more an individualist than probably you would now.
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I'm a wordless storyteller, someone who cares about the dynamics of music...Musical dynamics are human dynamics.
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Every actor is alive because of her fans. I'm glad that my fans love me so much. I have an immense responsibility towards them. That's why I'm careful while signing a film. What is also important is to judge whether I would like to watch the film as an audience or not.
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I like that confusion when people are speaking in the same language but still can't understand each other. It's also usually my experience of being in America - when I speak no one can understand what I'm saying.
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He didn't call his father and mother 'Father' and 'Mother' but Harold and Alberta. They were very up to date and advanced people. They were vegetarians, non-smokers and teetotalers, and wore a special kind of underclothes. In their house there was very little furniture and very few clothes on the beds and the windows were always open.
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He made a few errors in judgment, but he certainly didn't deserve what happened to him.
