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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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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I don't want to be someone in my sixties holding on to a group that I created when I was in my twenties.
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I'm an actor and a playwright, and I don't earn much.
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A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.
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I really do try not to emote. I don't like seeing it on documentaries - it seems a bit unprofessional. I also need to be human being and be a kind of sympathetic presence for the contributors I'm with, so there' a line you have to walk.
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In the 1930s, photographers such as Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange produced images of sharecroppers and Okies, which drew attention both to the conditions in which these unfortunates found themselves and to their heroic fortitude.
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Does Facebook behave like a tool in my hand, or a firehose designed to spew at me in accordance with other peoples' agendas? Concretely: can I write my own client to present a filtered view of the Facebook stream, or have other people do that for me?
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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.
