David Lynch Quotes
I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.
Quotes to Explore
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Broadway is really my life.
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I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
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Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.
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I guess actors are very sensitive people. We're porous.
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I think the skin is the most important thing. If you take care of your skin, you don't really need much makeup.
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If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.
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I am happy in Paris.
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One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when talking politics, making social references or dealing with very hot-button topics because it is sci-fi.
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I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.
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When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
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When it comes to meetings and preparing for that, it doesn't matter if it's a meeting with the U.N.; with a large operator, CEO, or chairman; or if I have an internal meeting - in all cases, I know that the energy and the engagement in every discussion is extremely important.
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There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready to hear.
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I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.
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I decided I was going to go to Wall Street, and I was introduced to some people... I met a guy who knew a bond trader at Pressprich, and he got me to meet him and the guy that ran their sales department, Jack Collin.
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This new baseball is like a golf ball. I think there are going to be a lot more dents put in the wall at Fenway Park this year.
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Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall or the wainscot can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied.
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But again, I remain optimistic that the impact on energy from these two events will be limited.
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I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.
