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 was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
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When you follow your heart's calling, you wind up becoming your most powerful self. You don't need to take power from others if you can tap into your own inner power.
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Nothing is more urgent than a serious, dare I say compassionate, debate as to where we are going at home and abroad. Technicians cannot master revolutions; every great achievement was an idea before it became a reality. Cathedrals cannot be built by those who are paralyzed by doubt or consumed by cynicism. If a society loses the capacity for great conception, it can be administered but not governed.
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I would like to cite an instance which proves the efficacy of clean living on the part of an athlete coupled with the inspiration received from a champion which go a long way to making a champion.
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To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are.
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I would like to become champion, but I'm realistic about it.
