David M. Shoup Quotes
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I've got nothing very original to say myself.
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The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'
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Whether it is a super PAC or not, I have been blessed with wealth, and I think I have responsibility to use it properly.
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I am not a political writer. I agree with Stieg Larsson and Henning Mankell, who are social writers. I can't write in that fashion. I am not good enough for that. What I am interested in is family dramas and why we are doing bad things to each other and what our motives are.
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Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.
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If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.
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It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.
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If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.
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There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.
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Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
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The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient.
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There is something about guns that inhibits understanding. It is not just that they can put an end to argument. They somehow generate beliefs that are obviously contrary to observable fact.
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I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.
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One of the outstanding achievements of the new constructional technique has been the abolition of the separating function of the wall.
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And then she finally said yes. And we have been married, I want you to know, for 51 years.
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You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.
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Music is a job, but I figured out ways to get my mind into a place where I could be creative. I actually discovered meditation. It enabled me to clear my mind of all the drama and focus on the music.
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I think of dieting, then I eat pizza.
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There are times and places for tune-ups and stay-busy fights.
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I was fortunate because my mum shared my love of film with me, so we would go to the movies twice, three times a week, and we would watch movies at home. As a teenager, instead of going out, we would have these huge movie nights in. But I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.
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Style is timeless. It transcends generations - it's enduring. If you're thinking about fashion, it's of the moment. And that doesn't mean that it's not important at times to embrace trends and that type of thing, but style is less about trends than it is about how you carry yourself.
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Broadway was very vital back in the '20s. There were probably close to hundreds of productions that opened up through the course of the year and through the course of a Broadway season.
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Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.
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To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.
