David Lowery Quotes
I grew up in a deeply Catholic home. Our parents always encouraged us to march to our own drums, though, so some of us are still Catholic and some are not. That's always going to be a part of me though; little bits of it trickle into my work. Whether it's an embrace or a rejection, I'm not always sure, but I can't avoid it.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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It's fun to play dress up for work, but when you have those off-days, it's nice to just be low-key.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.
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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
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The worst thing about cynicism is its truth.
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Nobody had made the same full use of the properties of acids and metal in this way before. Having drown on the copper-plate and left areas of it bare, I laid it in the bath of acid and achieved effects that astonished even me, full of subtle nuances.
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I want a campfire box.
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Gary Oldman is my TV hero. The incredible thing about Gary Oldman is his versatility.
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People who passionately want to believe that the world is basically simple react to this with a fury that goes beyond what I consider appropriate for discussing a programming language.
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I grew up in a deeply Catholic home. Our parents always encouraged us to march to our own drums, though, so some of us are still Catholic and some are not. That's always going to be a part of me though; little bits of it trickle into my work. Whether it's an embrace or a rejection, I'm not always sure, but I can't avoid it.
