David Lynch Quotes
There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.
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TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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Parts that are desexed, matronly – to just put me in a couple of scenes and have me be the older, you know, dead character, is not gonna fly with me.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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In the film industry, you are fictitious, just like the characters you play. It has a lot do with a perception about you, and not necessarily you. You are successful because people like that image of you on screen.
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Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
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A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.
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I'm one of the regulars. I play this doctor, Dr. Andrew Brown, going through some marriage problems.
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The climax is the place where the opposing forces in your story finally clash. This is true whether those opposing forces are two armies or two values inside a character's soul.
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I don't separate things out between what's personal and what's my work. My passion is personal.
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My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.
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I still believe in love. I believe in marriage.
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What I really want is a commercial hit. If you're in a hit, you're suddenly a star, whether you acted well or not.
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I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.
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Big stories need human stakes.
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My telephone manners were, well, offensive to some. As I lugged my cell around, yammering away, I noticed cold stares from passersby who viewed me as a kind of techno-terrorist, or at least incredibly rude.
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I always had this New York fantasy of living in a glass high-rise.
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Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
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During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.
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Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day.
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Public corruption is the FBI's top criminal priority. The threat - which involves the corruption of local, state, and federally elected, appointed, or contracted officials - strikes at the heart of government, eroding public confidence and undermining the strength of our democracy.
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I made music a priority every single day.
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I want to work, but being a mom is my No. 1 priority.
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There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.
