David Lynch Quotes
Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.
Quotes to Explore
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When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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I like to cook, but mostly Greek. When I am confused or tired, I think about what I can cook. It takes you away from everything, as you are thinking only of your dish.
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It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.
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Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.
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Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.
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I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get enough money. Or they work hard so they don't have to work hard later in life. But though I don't need money, I still work hard because I like what I am doing.
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You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
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I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.
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You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.
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My personal style is ever changing.
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I just kept telling myself that ultimately, the money that my grandparents had put away to go into my college fund, that they were investing for me to go to school and get this education, it had to be worth something.
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I don't do anything just 'cause nothing else is happening, or for money.
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What Mexicans want and aspire to, is to go there and work temporarily and raise some money and come back home. That's what they want, so nobody's asking for those two, three million Mexicans that are illegally in the United States to become American citizens.
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Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.
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Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
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Money is just a way of keeping score.
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
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There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that book on. So it's a very close relationship. We can do that because we're so small.
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I have my pride. I'm a director. I'm not going to go and recreate some other director's vision.
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We've got to take care of the poor.
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If I'm somebody that says the team is important and the players and coaches need to sacrifice and I then see an opportunity to help the football team and don't do it -- I would be going against the basic principal of what I preach.
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Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.
