David Leslie Quotes
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Many a man owes his advancement very largely to his ability to converse well. The ability to interest people in your conversation, to hold them, is a great power.
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From my own internal fanboy perspective, there's nothing that I hate more than seeing a three minute trailer for a movie where I feel like it's shown me the entire movie.
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
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It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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My goal was never to win awards. Mine was let me get to a place where I don't have to work. I don't have to do anything I don't want to.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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Being published is a bit like being entered into a race you don't even want to run, but, once running, can't help but not want to lose.
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When the sacredness of one's word is matched in the attributes of his character throughout, all that constitutes a man, then we find that there is something in a man's life greater than his occupation or his achievements; grander than acquisition or wealth; higher than genius; more enduring than fame.
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Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it.
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From 16 years old, I wanted to have a baby, that's all I wanted.
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I was kind of lost for several years.
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I want to show that I'm a real teenager, not some fantasized Hollywood kid.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.
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Spain is a fascinating mix of people, languages, culture and food, but if there is one thing all Spaniards share, it's a love of food and drink.
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The Bible is no lazy man's book! Much of its treasure, like the valuable minerals stored in the bowels of the earth, only yield up themselves to the diligent seeker.
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I would like to become champion, but I'm realistic about it.
