David Lynch Quotes
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The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
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I am not honest.
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It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'
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Many people know that Ethiopia is poor. When I break a world record, maybe people get to know something else about Ethiopia, something good. We can't make planes or cars, we don't have the materials. We do what we can.
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Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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You try to do what you can to bring harmony wherever you go.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.
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The chi of a room is important to me. If I walk into a hotel room and it doesn't feel right, I ask to change.
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I write all the time, even if it means recording in the hotel room. I write on the plane, anywhere, anytime I'm inspired or have ideas.
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The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.
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At a earlier age, I was kind of into a pretty large scope or range of music from Hieroglyphics and the Hobo Junction guys and all that to like a lot of stuff that was in New York like Diamond D, Nas, Brand Nubian, of course Biggie, OC, Organized Confusion, Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Digable Planets, who I just saw recently, and they killed it.
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I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.
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I live with the fact that while I am playing, I am going to give everything I have, and I will live with those consequences.
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I'm really thankful for every experience I've had, even the ones that were puzzling or disorienting, because they taught me so much.
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It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.
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I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it had fallen by the wayside over the years.
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You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can hope for.Live well, my son.
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I have gone back to some things that can't possibly be done: water, with weeds waving at the bottom. It is a wonderful sight, but it drives one to crazy to try to paint it. But that is the kind of thing I am always a tackling.
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If all you're doing is playing it safe - trying to make the same movie over and over again - that's when the audiences say, 'Oh, this is just a moneymaking machine.' But if it's genuinely in service to the art form, then the franchise concept is being used in a way that's exciting.
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An army should always be so distributed that its parts can aid each other and combine to produce the maximum possible concentration of force at one place, while the minimum force necessary is used elsewhere to prepare the success of the concentration.
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Life is hard enough. Life is always going to be hard, so you need to push for what you want.
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Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.
