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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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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I didn't really make up my mind to be an actor until I did 'The Hitcher' with Rutger Hauer. I was about 17 or 18 when I did that, by which point I'd probably done a dozen or more movies or TV things, but 'The Hitcher' was the experience that made me want to study and commit and learn how to do this for my life.
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Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.
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I'm thrilled to be taking over Green Arrow. What I adore about the Arrow is his recklessness. He'll shoot off on an impulse, dispatch someone if they deserve it; his heroism is instinctive.
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I think if you're impregnated with good literature, with good culture, you're much more difficult to manipulate, and you're much more aware of the dangers that powers represent.
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I have no idea what I'm going to say when I stand up to give a toast. But I do know that anything I say I find funny.
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I do as much as I can. I even drive through the chase scenes several times to make sure the details are right.
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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.
